Question: Are writers more moody than other people?

This is of course something that is hard to quantify. How do you measures moods, from a scientific perspective?

The reason for asking, is that I feel as a writer that I have to have an exceeding high level of self awareness. If I am not emotionally literate, how can I hope to write emotionally literate characters?

And, unfortunately, I am coming to the conclusion that I am one moody git. I try, and I think I succeed, in not letting my moods affect those close to me, but my moodiness does not make for a serene and happy life for me.

So what came first? The moodiness or the urge to create? Or are they both just different sides of the same coin, and I just need to suck it up, stop whinging about it, and crack on son.

Thanks for listening.

Iain...............

How has everybody's week been?

The bane of my existence, my day job, was actually ok this week. It has been driving me demented, grinding me down, and burning me out. This week it feels like I might actually be turning a corner, and, for the first time in a LONG while, I actually have hope that the future might be ok.

Sales for my recently released novella, Doctor Oadwin: The Making of a Maniac, picked up this week also. I sold 11 books and have received over 400 Kindle Unlimited reads. This is making up for the launch, which went off like a damp squib.

And now I sit down, in my back garden, smoking a fine cigar, drinking a hot chocolate, and am about to fire up my work in progress, Part 2 of my British Zombie Apocalypse, Zombies Calling.

Wishing all you creatives well.

Iain..................

Hello fellow writers.

Just joined Prose yesterday.

Name is Iain CM Gray, and so far have published a collection of short stories, a zombie book, and a novella.

Am new here and am just wondering what this is all about.

Who's going to teach me the ways of Prose?

Iain................