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Battling Burnout

11/24/09

Permalink 05:51:18 pm, by david167 Email , 275 words   English (US)
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Battling Burnout

I have written before about a friend of mine who once said “you have so many irons in the fire, if I didn’t see the smoke I would swear you had no fire left.” He almost was correct at the end of October—I almost did not have any fire left. I have been silent on this blog for weeks while I have been overcome with burnout. I completed the first draft of my horror novel, Dark Medicine , a collection of 53 poems and began to look at truly plotting out the science fiction novel The Guardians. On top of those things, I had an over loaded and over whelming last three months in the various events and activities I do outside of my bill paying job and my writing.

It highlighted that I was doing too much and not all of it was related to this career as a writer. I had to step away from it all—from these blogs, from my stories, my poems, and many of the community activities I am involved with (at least the ones I am not some kind of officer or in a leadership role in). Eventually, I took a long walk in the Missouri Botanical Gardens (www.mobot.org) and cleared my head and my soul. I thought long and hard about my priorities and my writing.

I am returning to blogging and working now on The Guardians. Once I finish the character sketches that I need to do. It does feel good to be writing again.

Thank you for reading and please visit www.davidalanlucas.com for updates to all of my writing and blogs.

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