What is it that makes your fingers type faster than you knew possible? Is the emotion you are feeling truly what you think or is it covering for something else, something deeper?
Does that make your characters much richer than they would have been before? Does it add new layers to the drama?
Nothing is ever how it seems on the surface - not in real life, so why would our writing not reflect the same things? Even if we are looking to read as an escape - it still has to have the ring of reality to it or we will just put the book down.
Worse even than that - as writers, we put our own book down because we have lost interest in it because it has lost its way. Go back to that moment, remember how it felt, feel it, relive it - until you are in that place where it is all too real again. Then you can write about it again - this time with the genuine feelings that will make it all make sense and hold both you to the writing and the reader to what you have written.
Just make sure you are not adding too much fuel to your fire and that you burn out...
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