How to Deal with Being Emotionally Drained As a Writer
It happens. Here is how to deal with it.
I’m emotionally drained as a writer. It sometimes gets too much and I then disappear for a while to come back again. That makes me feel worse. So I’m putting a stop to it and pushing through. I’ve been working hard on my new book as well as attempting to write on here as regularly as possible. It’s possible to be drained as a writer and happens more than you think:
“Two hours of writing fiction leaves the writer completely drained. For those two hours he’s been in a different place with totally different people. “ — Roald Dahl
Do you ever feel that writing can take it out of you instead of fuel you? Then it may mean you’re emotionally drained as a writer — here’s how to deal with it.
I recently wrote a post about how to deal with being emotionally drained — check it out here.
However, this article will be specifically for writers and how to deal with the emotional baggage because:
“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of writing or either thinking about writing.” — Eugene Lonesco
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