Writing Everyday, Without Burnout

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I’ve recently started writing more as a form of stress relief. I’m free of judgment and I can say whatever I need to say. As a personal goal, I tried to write every day, whether it be on Medium or in my personal journal. I’d write something, anything, it could be a sentence or a paragraph. But I forced myself to write. After about two weeks, I felt like I had emptied my thoughts as much as possible. And I had nothing more to say. But not in a bad way. The bottled-up emotions had been let out, and I had a sense of peace.

As I continued writing after those 2 weeks, I felt somewhat burned out. I was in a place where my thoughts just seemed forced and now I forcing myself to churn out crap. I mean, I’m not the best writer I can be, but I know when my writing is forced. It’s like the feeling you got in college when you were supposed to write a 10-page paper and ended up with only 9. And, the more you wrote, the less coherent your writing sounded.

I came to the conclusion that in theory, writing every day is nice. You’re getting your thoughts out and into the atmosphere. But on the flip side, are the thoughts you want to get out, actually getting out? Or are you writing cliche-sounding articles or journal entries? I was doing just that. So, I told myself, moderation. It’s just like everything in life. If you work in moderation, you don’t kill the vibe of the thing…