The Greatest Challenge of Taking a Writing Break
Is trying to get started again.
‘If I’d known it was gonna be this hard then maybe I wouldn’t have bothered coming back.’
We all need a break.
A break from working. A break from parenting. A break from life.
It’s necessary to keep our sanity intact and to avoid imploding in an almighty heap of destruction. Boom 💥.
The same goes when it comes to writing.
Because, as much fun as it is to populate pages with glorious, mesmerizing words — and no matter how ‘easy’ it may seem for those non-writers on the outside looking in — writing consistently, day in and day out, really can take its toll on a person.
Writing burnout — we all know how it feels. Excruciating 🤦♂️.
But what happens when you do take a break?
Or more importantly, what happens when you decide to return from taking a break?
This is something I never really thought about until now 🤔.
The Struggle
- Motivational issues
- Writer’s block
- Analysis paralysis
