I'm not sure what's going on.

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I have had a hard time in my life with writing. As a child and a teen, all I knew how to do was structured writing for school. It was boring when it wasn't stupidly stressful if I messed up, which I often did. I hated it. Then I discovered that I could say screw you to that type of writing and write fiction like the stuff I read to escape. I wanted to do it so badly, yet I struggled with it going months, sometimes even years without writing anything.

Something has changed over the last two weeks. I've been able to churn out a many thousand words of work on chapters of several of my stories.

I'm not manic. I've been manic, and I've written when I was manic to the exclusion of everything else feeling like I was invincible and I could write everything. I had one week back in November of 2013 at the top of a cycle where I spewed forth over 80k words on a single story. I did this to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wasn't taking care of myself and I was barely scraping by at work. The writing was mostly garbage that I'm going to have to rewrite, but I did it. This is not what's going on right now.

I'm getting things written and it's not that hard. I'm not struggling like I used to.

I don't want to look the gift horse in the mouth, but can someone please tell me why?

This is weird.

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Getting Into a Groove, Perhaps?

Hasn't happened to me in a long time (and never with fiction), but I think I ran into it occasionally when I was running a sports game newsletter some years back.

And I've been in several situations -- I suspect most researchers have -- where, having reached your immediate goal, you keep going off on interesting tangents and learning a lot, though sometimes about things that you eventually decide you're no better off knowing.

Eric