The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex | Literary Hub

Where there's comfort and unencumbered feeling and a glimpse of the infinite--of nature's determined will to "get it on" in the face of storm and drought--there is, too, the potential for story. As writers, we need our room-with-a-view to be both reflective retreat and motivating, sustaining base camp, from whence we can strike out and return to restoke the fire, or what Rick Bass calls our "lust" for the work--the energy that brings us back to the keyboard. Deep writing of the kind necessary for creative nonfiction requires a space in which we can go floating off into the big empty of the subconscious, where the mundane, must-do zones of the brain can go quiet and allow the hippocampus, that galaxy of memories and creative connection, to snap on: Hel-lo! Things need to get hot and jiggly in there before the juices can flow.