Random Thought, No. 2

I don't like writing, and this isn't where I say I love it either.
There's just some neurosis about writing and words; I need to write in the same way I need to eat. I can go a while without food, but I have to eat before too long; it's the same way with writing. There are days where I can't sleep without putting fingers to keyboard or pen to paper. I can't exactly describe the compulsion, other than to say it's inexorable, and it's not like an addiction. I don't get any sort of an emotional kick from writing, often it depresses me (my characters tend to lead hard, severely overwrought lives, through no conscious fault of my own), but I go back to my laptop, typewriter, and notebooks anyways.