Thoughts About Creative Enthusiasm
I was going to get a HaikuCat email list started, but when I went on the website to get it done everything seemed way more complicated than it should be and I don’t really want that on my plate today. Maybe one day I’ll get around to it. I wanted to talk about a couple of different things, but it centers around creative burnout and feeling obligated, which seems to be what I keep coming back here to write about. I’ll start at the beginning though, and the beginning is really the middle and it’s a middle that seems to happen to me over and over and over again. I was feeling burnt out and depressed and full of doubt about my creativity, about my micro business, about my social media presence, about all of it. And I say it happens over and over because it really seems like I just keep getting to a point where I have to have some sort of reckoning with myself to be able to go on at all. Will this pattern just continue on forever, for the rest of my life? Because it’s exhausting. Basic...