Writing Fatigue

Admittedly, it's been over a month since I posted on this blog. And as I squint my eyes and fight the blurriness that keeps sneaking up on me, I want to write this post because I miss it. Because I've been totally consumed by freelance work since about late October.

I'm experiencing writing fatigue.

I think writing fatigue is different than exhaustion. When you're fatigued, you're tired. You want to rest a lot. But at the end of it all you still get up and go and do what you have to do, and you somehow manage to get stuff done. Whereas when you're exhausted, everything shuts down and all you want to do is sleep or stare at the wall.

I do experience writing exhaustion on and off, yes. Sometimes it's at certain times of day, sometimes it's on the weekends when I'm coming off of a crazy work week. But the exhaustion fades away and the fatigue takes its place. And then sometimes a flurry of excitement and energy bumbles in and I'm on fire for a few hours.

And then I'm back to writing fatigue.

But really I'm ok with it right now. No, I can't work on my book manuscript. No, I don't have much mental energy left to work on my blogs. Especially when I've now taken up photography and have started teaching yoga again. But I know it'll come.

There is a season for everything in life. And my current season is a freelance season. It's a making money season, so that we can be comfortable moving into the years ahead. It's an establishing myself and my career season. It's a season that will pass, that will become a new one over the natural course of time.

So I'm embracing it. And writing up this little post, too. And now my writing exhaustion is taking back over, so off I go. Until my next break, or until a new season begins.