Painful Compulsion to Write

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I was recommended to these forums... it must have been about ten years ago, or so, but I've never been much of a forum person. However, my usual forms of trying to search for help have failed, so I've decided to try here.

I enjoy writing, though most of what I do focuses upon planning writing (such as planning out scenes, layouts, note-making etc.) than getting down to the nitty-gritty.

Over the past couple of days, however, starting... I think yesterday, I've been suffering on-and-off a painful compulsion to write. My mind says, WRITE, WRITE, and my heart aches while I don't write, due to lack of inspiration or not in the mood, to the point where my head and whole body hurts from not writing.

Have any other Aspies experienced anything similar to this? If any of you have, please tell me how you cope with it.

Best wishes,
Maj

Write.

Who cares if it's under your expectations. You can, and should, revise later. The point is to get something typed, something to go on. You will always have time later on to make it masterful.

Since routines are so important to people with Asperger I have structured my day, with plans, in such a way that it contains writing in a specific time of the day. All the stress goes away by doing this. The painful compulsion to write as you say it is not an option for me, I have to have control, and I have to have the opportunity to do all the other things that needs to be done in a day, and Then sit down from maybe 18:00-19:00 and Write. And then go on. It's just a daily sideproject that I get great satisfaction from and that is very important to me. But in a practical sense it's never more than a sideproject, anything else would ruin me.

Write as much as you like. It's not a negative compulsion like substance abuse so I see little need to suppress it unless it is getting in the way of things you need to do. For what it's worth, I enjoy writing too. Usually I like to write in places like this as it gives me plenty of questions to answer as well as feedback from others at times as well. Sometimes it can be very therapeutic as it lets me read what I am thinking or going through and that makes it easier for me to examine it from a different perspective.