is it a bad sign that this hypothetical fills me with a sense of relief
i would write a lot. really just a shitton. stories i haven't gotten around to telling yet. poetry. finally try writing fiction
I used to be a poet and a novelist. Now I likely have less than a year to live, and I can't write any more, because I'm so sick. If you really had a year to live, you might not be able to do it either. :-P