Writing

[butterfly75]

Does anyone here enjoy writing? Do you find tinnitus precludes you from writing or is writing a helpful way to cope for you?

 

[Michael Leigh]

Does anyone here enjoy writing? Do you find tinnitus precludes you from writing or is writing a helpful way to cope for you?

I like to write @butterfly75 Please look at my "started threads" I have written quite a few posts and wrote an article: Tinnitus, A Personal View. Whether they are any good is not for me to say but I'm in my element when I'm writing. I have variable tinnitus that ranges from: silent, mild, moderate and severe. When my tinnitus is severe I am unable to write the creativity just doesn't flow and does occasionally get me down. I can't concentrate on reading my books either, when it's like this or listen to my music, which I take great pleasure in being an Audiophile. So I try to busy myself with other things. Mowing the lawn and tending to things around the home and at the same time try to keep positive. There was a time my tinnitus was a lot worse.

Take care
Michael

 

[Markku]

Does anyone here enjoy writing? Do you find tinnitus precludes you from writing or is writing a helpful way to cope for you?

For me, I wouldn't say it precludes, but it often restricts it - and isn't a coping strategy of mine.

Interesting thread however. I know @Cheza is writing a book about tinnitus, @stacey has previously posted some memoirs.

How about yourself, @butterfly75?

 

[Bobbie7]

Writing, for me, had always been an outlet and a way to express my innermost feelings. I had begun a romantic short story about 17 years ago but just let it go.. lost interest in it. I had also composed poetry (mostly prose) but it has been quite some time since I last wrote and my interest has waned. I now enjoy other creative endeavors such as card creation and pique assiette.

 

[butterfly75]

For me, I wouldn't say it precludes, but it often restricts it - and isn't a coping strategy of mine.

Interesting thread however. I know @Cheza is writing a book about tinnitus, @stacey has previously posted some memoirs.

How about yourself, @butterfly75?

I'd love to read those books. I really like writing, but I wouldn't say I could ever achieve something like writing a novel.

 

[Kolisar]

I enjoy it, but I am terrible at it. Tinnitus does not prevent me from writing, nor does it make me forget about it. I use it as a way to deal with depression and my writing consists primarily of attempts to verbalize my pain.

 

[BLane]

I love to write. Nothing helps to unravel my thoughts so well as the act of writing. At first it was very difficult to write or read with T, now it has become an enjoyable distraction. I stopped journaling and decided if I'm going to write, why not be productive. So I've been working on a fiction novel. I've no idea if anything will come of it, my only goal right now is to finish it. I can get so lost in it that T is forgotten at times.

 

[Sonic17]

I love writing. Journaling has been very helpful for me to express my innermost feelings about Tinnitus and coping with it. If I had the time I would love to write children's stories.

 

[Shera]

I love to write and T hasn't quite taken that away from me. Sometimes when it screams really loud and I've got a super headache I have to call it quits. Reading has been a huge loss, but I'm getting to a point where I can almost get lost like I used to in a book. Read a book in 2 days! (I'm so far behind on my ARCs! I feel so bad for the authors.) Someday I'll read like I used to where the world and my T will melt away.

I do notice that sometimes it messes with my editing when I publish posts or reviews. I miss more errors than I used to.

My Goodreads goal for the year is still set to 100 and I'm loath to lower it. But I set it before I had T and I feel like I should make it more realistic now.

 

[Shera]

I love writing. Journaling has been very helpful for me to express my innermost feelings about Tinnitus and coping with it. If I had the time I would love to write children's stories.

That would be great.

 

[BLane]

I do notice that sometimes it messes with my editing when I publish posts or reviews. I miss more errors than I used to.

I've noticed that as well, I miss and make way more errors since T than I used to!

 

[Shera]

I've noticed that as well, I miss and make way more errors since T than I used to!

Yes! So now when I send book reviews out I try and at least re-read them 3 times. Yet I still have errors.

 

[butterfly75]

I love to write and T hasn't quite taken that away from me. Sometimes when it screams really loud and I've got a super headache I have to call it quits. Reading has been a huge loss, but I'm getting to a point where I can almost get lost like I used to in a book. Read a book in 2 days! (I'm so far behind on my ARCs! I feel so bad for the authors.) Someday I'll read like I used to where the world and my T will melt away.

I do notice that sometimes it messes with my editing when I publish posts or reviews. I miss more errors than I used to.

My Goodreads goal for the year is still set to 100 and I'm loath to lower it. But I set it before I had T and I feel like I should make it more realistic now.

I miss how effortless reading was as well. Sometimes the stress of tinnitus becomes too much.

For those of you who have Goodreads, please post them!

 

[Shera]

It does. I miss reading into the morning. My T seems to amplify at night and just get louder the longer I stay up. I'm hoping it will settle or I'll get to that point were I'm like *bleep* you I'm reading my great book.

Here I am: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3167178-shera-book-whispers friend me or send me your link.

 

[Sonic17]

@Shera Is this a book you wrote, Goodreads?

 

[Sonic17]

@BLane Maybe that is why I think that writing books for children would be less stressful….easy on the mmd but enough to keep me occupied.

 

[Shera]

@Shera Is this a book you wrote, Goodreads?

No. It's a social media site for book lovers.

 

[Sonic17]

@Shera Oh, okay.

 

[BLane]

@BLane Maybe that is why I think that writing books for children would be less stressful….easy on the mmd but enough to keep me occupied.

Yeah, there you go! If it will crowd out thoughts of T, that alone is worth it. Grab an idea that will hold your interest for a long while and give it whirl.

 

[Daniel Lion]

Writing is a noble art, story telling.

An idea, a pen or pencil a piece of paper... and potentially something epic.
After a huge acoustic trauma, hearing loss, and subsequent tinnitus I went into shock like everyone here. After about 2 months I discovered Valium... it's cheap, I didn't need a prescription. And if I took enough blue pills it took the edge off, so much so... I would slur my speech... my family hated it, by the way... I digress, this was about writing.

I would write short stories... some of them I thought were pretty good... I've always been an artist, but writing was not my medium.

I kept these writings for editing at a later date.
Subsequently the writing was so frenzied and illegible they were like hieroglyphies and I was unable to read my benzo inspired prose.

I may write again, but without drugs and with a penmanship I can read.

 

[Marian C.]

I haven't written anything for a long time, but recently I was thinking about silence, and ended up writing an Ode to Silence! I was thinking about how we remember things and "see" things in our mind's eye. So I started to think about the mind's ear, as well. Every time we hum a tune we are remembering it and hearing it in the mind's ear.

I wondered if I could use the mind's ear to visit silence. The first thing that came to mind was watching snow falling in a beautiful, calm place. I could feel within me again how I used to feel in the silence, watching the snow. Then I thought of a hall that is quiet, before echoing footsteps break the silence. I thought of the moment of silence that happens while "the penny drops" just before someone bursts out laughing at a joke. My memories of how I have felt in different situations where silence reigned, enabled me to relive the enjoyment of silence. Here is the poem I wrote about it.

Ode to Silence

Welcome back, old friend!
My solemn, awkward friend
My golden, peaceful friend
My perfect friend.

I thought you'd gone,
But you were always in my heart.

I sought you among the blank canvasses
I sought you in the emptiness of space
I sought you in the hospital
And on the World Wide Web.

But you were always here
True and profound, in my mind's ear
Like the daffodils danced
In the mind's eye of Wordsworth
Silently bobbing in the breeze
Along the margin of a bay.

 

[Jazzer]

Does anyone here enjoy writing? Do you find tinnitus precludes you from writing or is writing a helpful way to cope for you?

I write to keep sane.
I write to shine the light of logic on the emotional chaos of unremitting pain.
I have always done this, from a desolate childhood, throughout years of psychotherapy, up to the present time.
Writing helps me to examine my concepts.

Somebody (whoever he is) once said,
"Man is the problem solving animal."
This is what we do, all our lives - we have a problem - something needs doing - so we fix it.
All of that is well and good.
The trouble comes when a problem arrives which defeats our every effort to fix it.
Tinnitus is such an apparently unresolvable problem.
I conceptualise it, and plan my coping strategy.
Writing is crucial to my survival.
It saved my life once before.

Years ago I attempted just one time to write some poetry, which I subsequently mislaid and lost.
I have never tried again since.
I remember just these few lines:

"No loving arms, no smiling face
a tiny outcast from the human race.
I longed for eyes that would truly see,
and seeing, know, and knowing, be
the love I craved since time began.....x"

 

[Jazzer]

I enjoy it, but I am terrible at it. Tinnitus does not prevent me from writing, nor does it make me forget about it. I use it as a way to deal with depression and my writing consists primarily of attempts to verbalize my pain.

Writing has always been crucial to me Kol' for the very same reason.
A jumble of painful emotions is soul destroying.
Verbalising them puts them in to some kind of context and may even help me to devise some sort of conceptual way forward.

 

[Gregor]

Published author here from NL. Last fall my De vorm van geluid (The Shape of Sound) came out in NL, which is probably the first novel about tinnitus published by a mainstream publisher. I wrote it in 5 years after struggling with T for 1-2 years. Writing the novel must have helped me in a way, I am sure.
Right now looking for a publisher willing to translate my novel. see https://www.tinnitustalk.com/thread...novel-on-tinnitus-published-in-english.35548/