But when you want to take that work into the marketplace, then you just have to 'be a man', you have to battle. There's a whole other set of weaponry that comes along that women can use. The first, initial phase is the self-exploration of creativity, the journaling, and the support and nurture. But if you want to go into the second phase, you just have to 'be a man', and there's nothing wrong with that. There's a lot of language of dysfunction around now, like 'computer impaired', and sometimes the language of creativity is like that, and it is true that people who are creative are also quite often more sensitive and neurotic.
Creativity is as good as therapy, a wonderful tool.
Sometimes have writer's blocks, and they are the most elaborate, creative thing about them.