You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Dont embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might serve to benefit and enhance your writing. Thats damaging. Counterintuitive. Writing can be so incredibly lonely, and when youre alone with your thoughts for long enough to produce a hundred thousand words of your own headspace, it can be scary. Suffering is not good for your art. Mental health care is. So talk to someone other than your future readers about the problems you are facing. Someone you know and trust. There is no shame in asking for help.

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