Blog Burnout

As Josh Lanyon posted about down below, it isn't easy. I've been going through writer's slowness and posted last month about needing to declutter my life. That process has begun.

In addition to the writing problems I’ve been having, I’m suffering from blog burnout. No, not reading them, writing them. (Except here LOL. I’ve enjoyed doing the pieces I’ve written about my writing troubles. It was cathartic and I think it helped me sort out the problems.)

I did what I said in the beginning I wouldn’t do. I took on too many promotional things to do. I had blogs where even though I only had to blog once a month, when I sat down and listed them, I was writing more than one blog a week. I started off strong. Had lots of blog topics, ideas. But…the well began to run dry. Coming up with more than one thought provoking topic got harder and harder to do.

I started sitting at the desk for hours, procrastinating and staring at the blank page. I feel exceptionally guilty that I took on commitments and will be stepping out of them, but I had to do something. I’ve begun slowly backing out of blogs that I committed a blog to a month.

I also think that leaving the once a month blogs will help me to refocus on writing. Remember I talked about feeling scattered? Well having the blogs due was one thing doing that. I was having trouble writing when I knew I had a blog due because I was panicking trying to come up with a topic. Taking a step back has already helped me. In the time I’ve been back from RT, I wrote an almost 30 K novella. It’s goofy, nerdy fun and I love it. Definitely am trying to get back to the actual writing versus the promotion angle. Know I need to do both but I can’t let promo interfere with writing. So begins my new mantra.


I will declutter my writing life and my house. I will get back to the writing.

Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen
http://www.mechelearmstrong.com
http://www.melanylogen.com