Writing Slowdown

Tags: burnt-out, Christmas, create, holidays, New-Years, writer-block, writing

Now running out of things to do, just running out of the energy to do them with.

I am not sure if it is because of the holidays, end of the year rush or just being a little burnt out. No matter what the reason might be, I just have not been up to writing as much as I usually do this week.

I have been taking it a little lighter in hopes that once the new year (or after Christmas rush) rolls by I will be back to my old content creating self. So if you notice a slowdown in any of my normal stomping ground - don’t be worried! I am just feeling the end of the year blues like the rest of you.

This might be a good time for me to reorganize my own way of doing things. I really need to go through my documents and find a better way of saving old articles and keeping payment records. Perhaps I should just backup and burn my docs to a DVD and start fresh on January 1st?

For any content creators in the house, how to you cope with this lack of energy to create something new? I would love to hear any suggestions from any and all who have them.

Filed Under: Personal on December 21, 2006 at 9:55 am

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Merlin said on December 21, 2006 @ 10:07 am

Trying to come up with good, decent content especially this time of year can be daunting to say the least.

We’re all (well, some maybe) franticly trying to finish up that shopping thing that we all go through his time of year balanced with our jobs, family lives, on-line lives and so forth.

Combine all this with raking your brain for new ideas for good content and we’re sure to have a slow down. Maybe a good approach would be to just relax and let it come to you instead of trying to force it.

A relaxing surf through some of your favorite haunts may spark an idea or two.