May I suggest that the comment about "losing her husband lost her the buffer she must have had" sounds possible? I do know that a fun mystery/humor writer I adored as good popcorn prose started to fall apart after the death of her husband. Turns out that she was suffering from early Alzheimer's, and he was able to keep her focused and channeled enough that she could still write. Without him, her writing--and her life--fell apart.
She's not dead, but she might as well be. Very sad.
I wonder if something Anne would have yelled at the walls for hours about and had her husband soothe her over had no place to go but the Internet?
Does she even have any real friends to vent to when needed, with her tendency to blow and flounce?
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Date: 2004-09-22 08:17 am (UTC)Haven't read this, not sure I should.
May I suggest that the comment about "losing her husband lost her the buffer she must have had" sounds possible? I do know that a fun mystery/humor writer I adored as good popcorn prose started to fall apart after the death of her husband. Turns out that she was suffering from early Alzheimer's, and he was able to keep her focused and channeled enough that she could still write. Without him, her writing--and her life--fell apart.
She's not dead, but she might as well be. Very sad.
I wonder if something Anne would have yelled at the walls for hours about and had her husband soothe her over had no place to go but the Internet?
Does she even have any real friends to vent to when needed, with her tendency to blow and flounce?