A few people in my online chapter are talking about burnout.

Luckily for them, they’re getting back into the swing of things after being burnt out. Unfortunately for me, they’ve introduced me to a new problem. (Yes, I’m a bit of a hypochondriac, what of it?)

I’m afraid I’m pretty darn close to suffering from burnout. And though this doesn’t effect the burnout fairy one bit, I don’t have time for burnout.

But I think I deserve to be burnt:

November 2005: A Walk on the Wild Side (WCPT)
Jan 2006: Baby, It’s Cold Outside, part of Winter Wishes (WCPT)
Feb 2006: One Hout Hour (Venus)
March 2006: Little Red (WCPT)
April 2006: Spring Break Fling, part of Spring Flings (WCPT)
May/June 2006: Futuristic for Venus (assuming they buy it), This would be the 4 month window LSB usually takes to have books out.

Oct 2006: Unnamed story in Fall Fires.

In all of this, I also have one story currently under consideration at Venus, 1 at WCPT and 3 at Hq.

Add to that the futuristic for VP isn’t actually finished, the LSB story needs 2 sequels to complete the trilogy, the VP story under consideration has a sequel I’d like to write, and 2 of the stories under consideration at Hq aren’t actually finished.

Can I please be burned out and take some time off?

*Sigh* Maybe after the writing marathon I’m hosting for the next two weeks.

Have you ever been burned out? What did you do to get over it? How do you combat it in the first place?

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