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Jan 30 08 8:17 AM

I'm yet to take the plunge from I-write-because-it-is-who-I-am to putting in the hard yards to be edited, published etc...

So in answer to the question, I don't yet have this issue with writing / reading - but as a graduate music student with a piano major, for awhile I couldn't listen to any music without analysing the structure of the piece, the use of harmony, the vocal techniques of the singer (if applicable), the instrumentation, etc etc...

Then I decided that I needed to do one of two things. Either close my brain off and become entranced and feel the pure joy in any music, be it in any style of any calibre - or actually enjoy the running musical analysis my brain automatically switches to whenever listening to music.

So I do both! If you can't stop your brain from over-analysing, I guess it boils down to whether you want to. If you do, then just get swept away by the pure art of writing - even bad writing, and if you don't, then you could always just enjoy that inner judge who chatters away...

"Oh, those 3 chords have SO been done before, and that violinist sounds like he's dragging a cat across a hallway by its hind legs and its teeth scraping across the floor!"

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If sanity is commonplace and commonplace is detestable, how far must one go to lose their sanity without becoming insane?