Recovering from Burn Out

[Zodia195]

Recently I started working on my story Dragons of Fraidel story again after people have been asking for me to continue it. Just now I submitted a new part for it. I still love this story, but I will admit I did burn myself out at one point, which resulted in my long hiatus in writing.

In the past year I've learned it helps to work on two different projects at once to help avoid creativity block and burn out. So I've thought of putting another story on this site to help stimulate me since I love that story also. But I am still on the fence the though. My main priority though will always be my artwork since that's where my degree is and what I want my career to be in.

So any advice on how to avoid burn out? I honestly don't want to get stuck in a rut again.

 

[SamScribble]

I think that you have already worked out the solution: have more than one project on the boil at any one time.

In addition to my paid work, I usually have four or five things bubbling away on the back burner at any one time. If something that has been working suddenly stops working, I usually put it to one side and work on something else.

Yesterday, I took out a story that I hadn’t worked on for a couple of months. Funnily enough, it was fine. It needed a new title and a bit of a tweak to the ending, but apart from that …. I’ll give it another couple of days, and then I'll probably post it.

Good luck with your story.

 

[sr71plt]

This particular burn out can be avoided (and readers would appreciate it) if you didn't start posting until you'd finished the work.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

My ma always complained that I never finished what I started, but the real deal was much different. The yard got mowed, the cars got washed, the garage got cleaned. What languished were the activiries I wanted to do. My enjoyment was an excuse for an immediate chore. Plenty of women have that attitude, FUCK GOLF GET A 2ND JOB

As for burnout, learn to be a polymath. I love to fuck AND learned to play pinball machines in the space between sex.

 

[Zodia195]

I could never finish work before posting it. Simply because at an early age I got use to sharing stuff I was working on so that way if there were any problems I could go back and fix them. How I write is the same way as how I create artwork. I'd rather fix an error as I am working on it rather than wait until it's done because by that time, I really hate going back to fix it.