The Artistic Temperament

How do you account for yourself if you don't show up?

Unfortunately, I've not been doing much showing up lately. I can't help but wonder if a direct correlation exists between my depressed mood and the amount of writing [productive or non] that I've done. I've been in a mood pit the last few days (weeks?) that most would attribute to "the artistic temperament." My spouse says it's more simple than that, and that I'm just plain ole crazy. Now, sitting here thinking, I don't believe I've done much of any writing at all, if any over the last weeks, perhaps a paragraph here and there, but nothing substantial. It's painfully obvious that I haven't been here as much as I intended. I guess I feel like I'm talking to myself, thus substantiating my husbands "crazy" verdict. But then again, Fitzgerald, Poe, Hemingway, Van Gogh all may have won the same "crazy" award for their artistic temperament, so I guess I'm in good company.

Go with it, if it works, right?
Just keep writing.