Is it only me or do others write constantly? In their heads, about whatever is going on at the time.

My brain is like a typewriter that I constantly dictate copy to.

The internal, very literate dialogue is constant.

If I’ve had a bad day or experience, I write about it. Sometimes physically and always in my head.

I think of it as a type of cognitive processing function.

Once it’s on paper or written mentally, it’s done, and I can move on.

If I could drain all those words tapping away in my head onto paper, I’d have countless manuscripts and probably have spilled a lot of ‘tea’.

It’s not only my experiences. Everything is a story. I watch people and conjure stories about them. Not fiction. Never creative writing.

Always an opinion piece or a news story. Always with an angle.

It can be exhausting.

Is this a common behaviour? Is it a writer thing?

Does anyone else relate to sitting in meetings, or social gatherings, possibly looking disengaged but actually observing everything in minute detail and writing about it in their head?

Is there a cure?