Dr. John A. King argues that creativity is essential for mental health and that everyone has a creative impulse. He warns that overly poetic language can actually get in the way of saying what you mean.
But I want to talk a little bit about the creative process because the creative process is very important for mental health. I think all of us have within us the desire to be creative in some way. And it's been found that it's fundamentally important for the overall balance of a person. Now, as a writer, I am always aware that there's an audience at the end of what I do. And being a writer, I always want to wax poetic about anything. But sometimes that doesn't help my audience. Sometimes that's not getting a message across, or I think it's not getting a message across.
