I find it difficult to write anything - in the sense that it's a struggle for me to even open a web browser and begin to to type - when I am not in the state of enduring an emotional or ontological crisis.
That is, the process of writing is one of catharsis, or of resolution, as opposed to a carefree exercise of diversion. This is more akin to to the travails of academia as opposed to literature, yet I write without the critical authority or evidence of the academic.
So my thoughts float airily in a space untroubled by the weight which requires truth or the unmasking of untruth; a space the size of their author's talent, vocabulary and prejudice.