Having one of my "up" periods no one ever believes me about, where I can't sleep for more than four hours at a time and am going to bed at 6am because I feel allergic to sleeping at night, and can't concentrate on anything for longer than ten seconds at a time. Sick. I hurt all over. I hurt just sitting here. My throat hurts like I have strep
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I never wrote it. I couldn't. I couldn't even run the goddamn thing through in my own mind from start to finish without it breaking me. It was just too... almost gratuitously awful. It was backstory for a character I was RPing -- Gorlim's successor, really, as far as where his muse came from. I think I ended up sort of vaguely outlining it in the form of having him tell the barebones version of the story in-character, but even that I left a lot out of and had to do it in multiple posts.
In the end, I think it was a story that didn't need to be told. Most stories are beneficial by virtue of their very existence -- the creative process is normally something that is good for people, and even BAD stories are rarely harmful. But sometimes... parasitic stories do exist. Things that DO harm their storytellers and their audience, if they are told. Stories that act like psychic vampires, parasites on the creative process that weaken and feed off of bonds that are normally STRENGTHENED and reinforced ( ... )
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