25. Surviving Creative Burnout

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Our exploration of seasonal creative living through the lens of the pandemic begins, so it feels appropriate to start with The Season of Discontent. Writers can arrive here anytime, but the covid era is perhaps the most obvious manifestation of how discontent—marked by one defining trait: blaming outside forces for your inability to create—can impact our writing life. Today we’re talking about what the season of discontent is, how to move through it, and ways to support yourself when experiencing creative burnout.

Highlights

• How to recognize you’re in the Season of Discontent

• My first experience recognizing discontent (and how I got myself out of it)

• Why haiku helped me process the pandemic

• The 3 components of creative burnout

• 5 ways to support yourself when experiencing creative burnout

Links + Resources

• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

• Eat This Poem: A Literary Feast of Recipes Inspired by Poetry

• Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer’s Path

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