Tuesday 2 November 2021

People who overcame the writer's burnout, how did you do that?


So I'm currently all burnt out, and I don't mean a writer's block. I mean being so exhausted by pushing myself to write more the mere thought of sitting down and writing something gives me severe anxiety.I've been feeling burnt out for the past year, but I've been telling myself that just by sitting down and writing more I'd be able to get through it like with the writer's block. So even when I wasn't writing anything for weeks, I was still tiring myself by thinking that I ought to get back to writing.It has come to the point that I can't write even a tenth of what I used to in a day, yet I'm feeling more exhausted than ever. It's not writing itself that tires me - it's my expectations of how much I should be writing.I took a month's break from even thinking about writing ever again, but now that November is on I thought that I might get back into it. I love writing. I just made it into this impossible challenge where at the end of the day no word count is enough. And I don't want this anxiety to win, but now I see that it's not a matter of pushing myself more, it just feeds my anxiety and makes the issue only worse. So how do I proceed? If you've had such an issue, how did you work through it and get back to writing?

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