When You Want To Be A Writer, But You’re Just Too Overwhelmed
What to do when you’re just too tired to be creative.
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Anyone who has followed me for any length of time knows that I’m all about teeny, tiny goals. You can write an entire novel every year if you really write for ten solid minutes a day.
But what if ten minutes is too much?
If you’re ill. If you’re overwhelmed with non-writing work. If you have a bunch of kids and a mountain of laundry and a job and then someone calls and tells you that it’s your turn to man the concession stand at the next soccer game.
Then what?
If you have all those things, asking you to give your art ten minutes can feel like asking you to give your art ten hours. Impossible. Just way more than you can handle.
And when you feel that stuck, it is so easy to just skip the whole thing.
Only skipping it doesn’t feel good. Because writing is your sanctuary. It’s the one thing you do for yourself. It’s your dream.
And, as hard as it is to find time to do it (and maybe as guilty as it might make you feel to take time away for yourself), it’s how you renew yourself.So here’s how to make sure it doesn’t get lost in the fray.