Overcoming the Feeling of “Needing” to Write

I’m on vacation: I don’t feel like writing.

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It’s the new year and there are plenty of new years resolutions around. People who want to do more, create more, write more. I think that is wonderful, absolutely great, and I applaud them for taking the plunge to be motivated for their projects, no matter how long that motivation lasts.

Today, that’s not me. I am motivated to write this year, I have plenty of projects and articles I’m excited to create. But not right now. Many people start the year off right away, having gone back to work and therefore back to being productive this past Monday, January 3rd. But for me? I don’t start work until the 10th of January. This year I decided to take some real time off, to actually find time to relax, destress.

While I’m attempting not to feel stressed or as if I’m missing out, I somehow, sometimes (actually, quite often)feel like I’m behind, as if I should be doing more, writing more, creating more. Why am I not posting articles online? Why am I not working on my book?

Since the holiday season has started (December 23rd) I’ve barely written a word. The only somewhat productive activities I undertook has been resizing and reshaping my next book, a solid 3 times — this is a great hack to feeling somewhat productive while in…