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Sept 13 - Do you derive joy from writing?

Well, that's a big fat yes.
I took it up again last year after too many years of ignoring the itch. It gave me something to focus on. Something creative I could lose myself in. 
I had become an anxious, sad mess, in a job I was hating more every day. I could feel it sucking the life out of me. Writing allowed me to disappear and forget for a while. Now, the job is finally gone and it's just my happy place. 
 @551afd26 I’m glad to hear you’re in a much happier place. Writing is like magic. You’re creating something almost out of nothing. We’re such a destructive species too. It’s nice to be creating instead.