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Why I Chose To Write Prolifically…
Rising from the ashes of a creative burnout I learned these life lessons…
Six months ago I suffered a creative burnout because I had more than twenty-five niches I was interested in writing. I couldn’t manage my content management calendar which left me feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, tired and a total loser. My calendar and my notepads looked messy and overcrowded as each rough draft needed several rewrites, edits and research along with submission deadlines screaming at me. I threw my hands up in total disgust and frustration and stopped writing promising myself to deal with the crisis with each passing day.
I hardly wrote on Medium and submitted only 1 article in a month and this had to stop and I couldn’t go on. I stopped writing, and jotting down ideas and shifted my focus to healing from several issues.
Since I had put all my favourite niches on the back burner, I could sleep better and focus on my full-time job in the real estate sector and I began seeing life with a new pair of lenses. I spent my days reading and concentrating on my artwork which gave me a lot of time to reflect on my decisions and short-comings.
Gradually the metamorphosis of healing happened and after four months felt fully recovered. During this time an epiphany, created an awakening in me in July, a realisation that I had to…
