Avoiding Creative Burnout
Take breaks. This is what I'm learning as I slowly build my world from the ground up in a creative process. Take breaks. Do it. It happens. Eyes gloss over. Head feels empty. I want to write but I feel on the edge of a hollow pit inside consuming all the ideas I want to write. It's like I know I have an idea, it's just there's this void waiting to eat all my ideas, a void that makes me tired and sleepy and out of breath just thinking about it. In the middle of writing my first large creative project, about 50 pages in (perhaps the farthest along I've gotten besides the other novel I'm writing about the moon and the sea), if someone were to ask me what the challenge is this far along in the story right now, I probably wouldn't say writer's block or isolation or feedback. At this point, as most authors and novelists will probably say, it's just getting it all on paper. However, today I seem to have come across a familiar aspect, probably my second g...
