#creative burnout

[ghostmistdraws]

Creative slump? No, no. Creative frenzy. Too many idea, not enough time, not enough energy. It's too much, I do nothing.

#art block #writers block #writing #writeblr #artblr #creative burnout #creative block #textposts #ghostsposts #artist life #writers life #writer memes #artist memes

[adorkastock]

Take care of your body and mind, art friends. ♥ Need help with the basics? Check out Mind. Body. Artist. It's a blogcast site @astrafauna & I started about taking care while making art. It's on hiatus right now but there's tons of useful stuff in the archive. Content breakdown below the cut ✂️

Introduction to MBA List of topics we have done and hope to do Meet the hosts: Sarah Dahlinger Sarah Forde

Mental Health 🔵Dealing with Crowdfunding Stress 🔵Define Who You Are 🔵Monthly Wrap Up 🔵Is This What You Want to be Doing? 🔵Use “And” 🔵What does a trout have to do with social media trolls. 🔵How to Take Advice to Win 🔵Do What You Need to do to Succeed 🔵Using an Alternating Schedule to Balance Both Art and Fitness (or whatever recharges your battery) 🔵One Success Metric to Win 🔵Art and Grief 🔵There Is No Time Limit for Getting Back Up 🔵Pick your Perfects to Achieve your Real Goals 🔵Can't work? Time to study! (with short exercises) 🔵Creating with ADHD 🔵How to Balance Creative Work and Day to Day Work 🔵Overcoming Self Doubt and Creative Burnout 🔵Getting Back Up After a Failure

Physical Health 🔵How to Roll Out Your Arms for Tendonitis Relief or Prevention 🔵Four Way Wrist Curls 🔵Ice/Hot Baths for Tendonitis Relief 🔵Stretch Your Wrists and Forearms 🔵Stretch Your Hamstrings: My favorite hack for eliminating low back pain. 🔵Tendonitis Flare Up: Fixed in a Few Days 🔵What I Learned from a Year of Never Missing a Workout. 🔵Let’s talk with a Licensed Massage Therapist about pain while making art.

Food Prep 🔵Recipes Intro 🔵Egg Muffins 🔵Lavish Bread Mini Wraps 🔵Five Minute Crock Pot Veggie Chili 🔵How to Make All Your Meals for a Week Without Really Trying 🔵All Week Salad 🔵Chicken with Onions 🔵Slow Cooker Pork Stew

Artist Interviews 🔵Interview with Loish 🔵Interview with Iris Compiet 🔵Interview with Doug Hoppes 🔵Interview with Heather R. Hitchman 🔵Interview with Brynn Metheney

#art help #tendonitis #mental health #food prep #stretching #art tips #artist interview #time management #adhd #creative burnout #artist problems #art burnout

[excali-bruh]

I am hope. | Dream | The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman.

I can’t lie, I’m in a huge creative slump at the moment (massive burn out, you know how it is), and though I’m not completely happy with this piece it’s the first thing I’ve been able to finish for weeks now. Gotta start somewhere, right?

#the sandman #dream of the endless #style experiment #my style #fanart #neil gaiman #the sandman netflix #the sandman fanart #creative burnout #digital art #morpheus #eldritch vibes #tom sturridge #I’m reading the comics finally and they’re great

[bonegloss]

You're not a failed artist.

After over almost two decades on the internet, entering various art communities and establishing my online presence, I've noticed something.

The persistent idea that you've "failed" as an artist if you get a "real job" will not go away.

This, for the longest time, permeated my electronic meat slab and nestled in deeply MUCH to my detriment . For years I fought with myself over this idea. Self-flagellating and noisy, negative thoughts were almost suffocating because I was unable to Do Art As A Job consistently and efficiently enough to maintain a living off of it. Between navigating life for almost 30 years not knowing I was autistic (and all that entails) and trying to turn something I love into something I could make a living off of, it was a vicious and repetitive cycle of trying something new, getting burned out, entering a depressive state, climbing out of it, rinse and repeat. This is clearly unsustainable, especially now that I am more independent in my adult life; bills aren't going to wait for me to get out of my depressive funks. Even having jobs and still making art on the side today, this idea is still nestled in there, nagging me sometimes.

Would I like to make a living off of my art? Of course! Would it be even better if I was supported from making stuff from my own IP's? You fucking bet. But I know how I operate, I know I can't personally do that (yet? maybe?). Now, I realize not everyone can just go get a job, and I don't want this to come off as a rally cry to Just Go Out and Work (I know many creative people are disabled or have other reasons they cannot work), but I do want to stress that its okay if art needs to remain more of a hobby than a job. It is okay if you cannot sustain yourself solely as a living artist. Over the years, I've burned myself out so god damn hard and have watched others work themselves to (near) death or can barely scrape by because of this incessant feeling that we need to be doing art 100% of the time to have "made it". It is hurting us both physically and emotionally to keep this shit up.

Going forward, we have to do better. There is no shame in having an income that is not dependent on the things you make. I think that it can help alleviate a lot of stress and fatigue that can become associated with creating (and thus, making it hard to do something you love). We need to learn to be kinder to ourselves and unlearn comparing our experiences to what we see from other creative peers on social media. Its hard, finding work sucks ass, and no job will be perfect, but if it can help you survive a little easier and rekindle your relationship for creating the things you love to make, it'll make a world of difference.

You are not a failed artist. You're doing what you can so you can keep doing what you love.

#*Real Job is used here within the context of mainly not getting employment in a creative field #I know that many creative people are able to get jobs within creative fields #but even that can help alleviate the financial pressure of having your creative outlet be draining #because your livelihood depends on it #Also I would like to note that while it would be nice to have UBI and more support for the arts in general in the US #that is not the case in the current economic setting and I fear it won't be that way for a while so working will have to do for now. #UBI would fix me #art #artists #creative burnout

[ridreamir]

Older Kieran x Reader Quick Snippet

[TW: Depressive behavior, angst] [Potential Spoilers for The Scarlet and Violet DLC!]

It's been a long time since he made his own parchment. Then again, it's been a long time since he's been back at his desk, in his childhood room, in his hometown. Wax stars set aside with the custom stamps he'd once whittled out of apple wood, he dusts off the top of an old letter book his grandfather once gave him. He doesn't know how long it's been. Those years he spent locked in his room, perfecting his craft, outlining each and every ridge of Oni Mountain and rereading every book he had on that small bookshelf in the corner. Each rewritten letter, every stroke obsessed over, every flick and scratch controlled over and over until he got it just right... Every step of the process enacted by him...

Now he pulls out a notebook full of pristine blue lines, mass reproduced, tidy, artificial, looking to scratch down his spiraling, unpredictable thoughts. It's... been so long since anyone has heard from you. It's been even longer since he's been able to successfully create something. He has all the polymer, all the wood, all the string, straw, and beads.

He... rips out another page and crumples it up, the perfect, smooth surface irreparably tattered in his tight fist while his hair pools down to cover it. His head sinks lower, and lower, and he loses all the strength he had to hold himself up. He sits there for a while.

#x reader #pokemon #reader insert #kieran x reader #kieran pokemon #tw depressing thoughts #tw depressing stuff #anhedonia #angst #aged up characters #pokemon x reader #short story #pokemon scarlet x reader #scarlet and violet #fanfiction #dlc #depression #no happy ending #creative burnout

[cjoat-boost]

March 4, 2024 Edit of this still relevant post from February 27, 2024

For those that view any of my online presences (including my blogs)…Um, this is something for you to know.

Please save this post so it doesn’t get buried by queue.

My& Current Health Situation

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

I wish to communicate this to y’all now so that…I don’t end up worrying anyone when this happens. It may have been noticeable by some folks that I’m dragging, heavily. I’m not having a good time right now with my body. With this comes with an onion of issues detailing certain aspects of what I’m going through.

I know I have a lot of obligations. Not only as a creative and content creator; but as a friend, a mentor, Guardian or even older peer, and myself. I’ve neglected myself for too long. I have been noticing my vitality decrease; and my CFS and POTS flaring up further.

Social Justice is something I’m always perceiving and sensitive to; and as such, the strain I’ve noticed too late has been worsening. Includes many emotional meltdowns and outbursts from me that I can no longer control or hold back.

Trying to figure out how to exactly sort through the mass tangles of my traumatized emotional and mental state isn’t as simple as I hoped for me. While I’m creatively burned out, I am suffering Autistic burnout. A double whammy of all things.

I’m finding myself getting “stuck,” unable to physically move for hours at a time. I’d move upstairs to eat something but end up being there for what’s normally an half hour task…for nearly 2+ hours. Even so, trying to force movement to do tasks that is considered “everyone can do these” is mentally painful and physically locking. Even if I have to desperately use the bathroom when I’m about to fall asleep, my headmates (AKA alters) have to switch to co-front or “snatch me back” in order to get my body moving. That’s with the sudden rocket spike in heart rate and blood pressure, and loss of balance (at the very least).

I’m already struggling to cope with many things due to the fact that I haven’t been able to draw much at all; or create anything and write anything. Especially trying desperately to fulfill my word on things I had the energy to do, but no longer do. So much of my struggles I can’t properly transmute. It’s so upsetting.

Thus, there’s going to be a sudden and abrupt shift in posting or messaging. I don’t know when. But it is coming.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━

(Especially since I’ve been feeling mania over the weekend. All weekend, Saturday and Sunday, I manic cleaned large portions of certain areas I occupy as well as my housemate. Today I’m feeling the aching in my joints badly, with my calves swearing hell at me. I’m wearing my wrist brace too, I just…I’m rambling.)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

I wish for you to know what’s happening if you don’t see or hear from me, my headmates, or any of my online presences (as depicted here: https://cjoatbysamwise.com/cjoats-links ) No one is being forgotten. I’m not abandoning anyone. I’m not ghosting anyone. What I do know (still coming to terms with it ngl) is I need to stop, fully stop, and recover. It’s looking like my body is going to do that for me by force. It’s going to be abrupt and sudden to the inconvenience of many, including my housemate, unfortunately.

I don’t know how long this will last. But I don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep “hustling” like this. Does this sound repetitive? I wanted to communicate before suddenly I’m unable.

Does this sound repetitive? I’ll end it here. I wanted to communicate before suddenly I’m unable.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

I’ll end it here with how you can support me while I’m down, only able to and wish to (I’m aware financial situations are a big struggle at the moment, there is no pressure to.)

Provide support by these links:

Thank you for reading until the end; have an awesome week ahead. Please remember to hydrate and eat. 🫶🏽❤️‍🩹

#important psa #my health #rock bottom #it’s not good #disabled #autistic burnout #creative burnout #manic episodes #update edit #website #throne wishlist #pay it forward #current events #2024 #online presence #just fyi #proofread post #big text #big post #bold text #bullet points #links #feel free to share #reformatted post

[sugiieop]

chaos. 🖇️

#shuhua #shuhua moodboard #aesthetic moodboard #k pop moodboard #kpop #sugiieop #white moodboard #messy moodboard #grunge moodboard #female idol moodboard #chaotic moodboard #idk lol #gidle moodboard #gidle shuhua #gidle shuhua moodboard #I love making moodboards #creative burnout

[saintlethanavir]

New video is up!! It's a speedpaint while I ramble about creative burnout and how we all collectively need to remember to TAKE BREAKS

#bg3 #baldur's gate #baldurs gate fanart #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 tav #tav #speedpaint #creative burnout #art burnout #Youtube

[lazui-l]

Sorry this is kind of a weird desperate vent post but please tell me I’m not the only one who will just read a book/watch a show/play a game/witness whatever form of media and start hyperfixiating on it because of how enjoyable it was

and then you walk over to the creative workshop part of your brain and you sit down and go “I want to make a story just as good as the stories I’ve been hyperfixiating on. I want to make something that will effect the reader just like how (insert inspiration) affected me” so you start brainstorming a plot or a character or a setting

But then you just stop and look at your ideas and think to yourself “I’ll never be as great as (insert certain artist/author who’s inspired your work) I’ll never have the positive emotional impact on someone like they had on me” and you just start hating everything you make and get swallowed by this endless pit of “I’m never gonna make anything great enough” and that makes you so miserable because you genuinely love creating stories and creating characters but your anxiety and constant need for validation drains the joy you once experienced and you feel like an unfinished painting on fire.

Like maybe this is a very universal experience with writers but I’ve never really seen anyone talk about what it’s like to have certain pieces of fiction you adore and bullying yourself into believing you could never make something as great. Has anyone else gone through this/are going through this??? Anyone have any advice or experiences or anything??

#writing #writers on tumblr #art #artists on tumblr #writing vent #vent post #seeking advice #burnout #anxienty #autism #special interests #idk what to tag this #creative burnout

[writergeek]

the number of times i've tried to make this post... and failed... is probably legendary.

anyway.

yes, i know i haven't updated any of my fics in a while. a long while.

i'm going through a... creative pause. (i'm hoping its not burnout.) (done that before) (all i got was a shirt, that I've since lost) as seen by the fact that I've only JUST been able to get myself together enough to make this post, despite it being on my to-do-list for about, oh, maybe eight months, as soon as i realised what was happening.

its been so bad i haven't even read fics for about six to eight months, and i used to read epic long fics for fun.

this creative pause/burnout has so far been a year long. and I'm just... taking it slow. letting my creative self rebuild naturally, not trying to force it. (did that last time, about fifteen years ago, and went straight into Burnout Eclectic Boogaloo. good times.)

so.

i'm taking the fact that i'm able to (finally) post about this a good sign.

we'll see how it goes from here.

#creative burnout #wg speaks #it do be like that

[1978-combo-organ]

creative block is actual hell bc?? what else am i supposed to do. my ass lives in texas i cant go outside ill crumble.

#i cant write?? #thats my main character trait #i cant draw #thats my secondary character trait #i dont HAVE anything else. #sigh #creative burnout #art block #writers block #txt #rambling

[mxshpitbaby]

i have so many words in my brain and so many things I want to say, but i don't know the best way. i want to be poetic, creative, and original, but I also want to be myself and embrace my feelings. i have so many words but none of them are the ones I want, they're not right. im stuck

#writers block #writersblr #self healing #self love #healing #creative block #creative burnout #burnout #gifted kid burnout culture is #poets on poetry

[kuno-chan]

Caveat About (Creative) Burnout

One of these days I need to record or write something out about what (my personal experience is about) getting out of creative burnout is like. A lot of advice I've seen isn't bad, but it often inevitably goes back to "you need to take a break."

I couldn't do that.

Like, emotionally speaking. Mentally speaking.

Again, the advice isn't bad, but I wish there was more advice out there that spoke up about how being in creative burnout is going to challenge your internal value as a human being. Like I wasn't even a valuable use of mass. Burnout at all is horrible, but going through burnout that specifically affecting your creative side when that often defines so much of us who are creatives is a seventh kind of hell.

It wasn't just a matter of getting my creative juices flowing or taking a break or making sure I was eating enough (these are all good and helpful, of course). Like... I had to get to therapy. Had to really unpack like 25+ years of emotional crap and it took almost 2 years post-college (where my burnout started) to really feel like I was nearing that light at the end of the tunnel.

#burnout #creative burnout #mental health

[kruncher]

Idk what's happening to me. I can't focus, nothing piques my interest, I can't come up with anything and nothing is inspiring. It's like I'm drained of creativity suddenly. I can't even hyperfixate

As a famous person once said: "I've lacked inspiration for years... I can't focus..."

#creative block #creative burnout #art block #alastor #;) #hyperfixation

[potato-head-kids]

So we’ve been free writing a little. Just like…small stuff. Five minutes, two short paragraphs. But it feels good to get back into it

#writing #recovering from burnout #creative burnout #—angel

[not-poignant]

im finally sick of my brain being shitty enough to make an appointment with a psychiatrist, but in the meantime i thought i might ask you this: in your wonderful answer to my ask re writer's block you mentioned burnout, which im pretty sure is whats happening to me. i dont want to ask you to give me a long answer if you dont have the energy for it, but i would like to know your thoughts on the matter. its been head empty hours over here 24/7 for months, lol, i miss creating

Helloooo,

I actually have written about burnout quite a bit because I've gone through burnout er, quite a bit... In fact I'm going through it again right now.

I have written a fairly long post about it in the past, so that's there if you want to read it.

I've had different kinds of burnout. I've had 'I couldn't write for years' burnout (literally, after university I just couldn't write anything for years and just assumed it was dead and gone because I didn't want to do it either), I've had burnout that's lasted months (even while like...writing as I am now), and so on.

A lot of dealing with burnout is just...resting more. Taking the pressure off yourself more. Grieving that you can't create right now without guilt-tripping yourself for it, a sort of 'I mourn that I can't do it, but there's nothing wrong with me and I am not failing because I can't do it. I need rest and care.' You can try little writer's block tricks here and there when you want to prod again. You can try other kinds of creativity. I can't write like I used to write, so I tried fanfiction. I can't write like I used to write fanfiction, which is why I've never written another Game Theory, because I just...don't want to write another story like that right now (I mean specifically all the sex every chapter, not the politics lmao). I've been feeling an urge to write poetry lately.

For you, through burnout, low-stakes creativity may help. Stuff that can be automatic (cross-stitch kits, where you're just doing someone else's pattern and don't need to really think about it beyond the stitching), colouring books. Or stuff that's low-stakes for you. For me that's often poetry. For you it might be something else.

I also think of getting through burnout where I can't create anything as needing to 'refill the well.' I catch up on shows I've been missing (writing as much as I do actually gives me no time for reading / watching media), I read books, I watch movies, I listen to new music and comfort music, etc. If my well is empty, rest will partially fill it, but so will inspiration. Watching Studio Ghibli for example almost always makes me think 'I want to write the way this makes me feel' - even if I don't write it, that little urge is like, a pulse or spark of alive-ness that gives the well a drop more inspiration for when I'm ready to write again.

It's very different for everyone though. It's important to address the basics - sleep, medications, quality of life, hydration, being well-fed, health (as much as health is possible) etc. If you're anxious and have insomnia and skip meals and forget to drink water etc. then it's back to square one with just...doing your best there. If that's mostly covered, then burnout is often just about meaningfully resting your mind.

I'd also add that there's different kinds of rest. Physical rest (sleeping / stretching), sensory rest (unplugging from screens and social media and overstimulation), emotional rest (time and space to express your feelings), spiritual rest (connecting with something greater than yourself - going into nature, community, giving, meditation etc.), mental rest (breaks, journalling), creative rest (like the cross-stitch and stuff I mentioned above) and social rest (spending relaxing time with people who love you as you are now).

So it's also worth looking at maybe... you're only focusing on one or two kinds of rest right now. Sometimes burnout requires that you address more of them. <333

There's no easy way through, because rest is the easiest way through, and rest is very hard (and not always possible to the degree we need it) for all of us in this day and age. Be gentle with yourself. I wasn't going to write a post as long as this but actually as someone who needs to hear these things myself right now, maybe you might need to hear some of them as well.

The main thing is burnout doesn't last forever, it's cyclical, it's not like chronic fatigue, or other chronic illnesses. Even people with chronic fatigue (like me!) can experience burnout cycles. So this will pass! You may not feel like writing again in the same way, and that's okay, whatever new version of you evolves out of your current exhaustion, I hope you enjoy that version of yourself, and learn to care for and show compassion to the current version of your tired self as well <3

#asks and answers #burnout #creative burnout #pia on writing #look burnout is just really hard actually #there's no easy answers #like writer's block is hard but writer's block isn't hard like burnout is #because often in that exhaustion #we don't have the energy to care for ourselves properly #so do what you can #when you can #and be gentle with yourself