How To Avoid Burnout As A Writer

I teach you how to avoid burnout as a writer (it happens to all of us at one point…) and how to recover from it to feel motivated to work again.

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If you have been a writer for a long time, you probably experienced something like this:

Especially as a freelance writer, you will have deadlines.

And with deadlines comes with tons of stress and pressure.

Now, I think it’s okay when something unexpected happens and you do it once in a blue moon. Life is unexpected.

But if your life is revolving around constant stress and overworking yourself, you will burnout.

So in this video I will show you the ways on how to avoid burnout as a writer.

Rest is essential

There’s no getting around to it. The cure to burning out is resting yourself.

Every step after this is in one form or another some variation of resting.

I have been there writing for 12 hours and what I noticed was that I would have 5,000 words, but 80% of it was junk. It was total garbage, like I couldn’t even re use it compared to working half that time and the quality just exponentially increasing.

Now you can take an enormous amount of rest like a vacation after working for 9 months or you can split it into smaller intervals with 10 minutes every hour.

See what works best for you.

It’s between these periods of rest that you collect your thoughts, you freshen up your mind a little, and you have a better direction in what to write.

It sounds counter-intuitive that resting saves you more time, but it truly does.

Take a power nap

I want you to take a power nap.

This has boosted my writing capabilities SO MUCH that it’s like a little superpower I have when I need the extra juice.

Take refreshing walks

Many famous people like Aristotle adored walks.

Mainly because it gives them time to reflect on their actions.

Do some stretching, yoga, myofascial release