At what point do you realize you need a vacation?
Is it while you're busy hacking away for more than two hours at an inch of ice covering your driveway after shoveling snow?
Is it upon realizing that you don't have a free weekend until March--and it's January?
Do you finally realize it by the time your immune system--which is far, far more sensible than you are--decides to take the vacation you won't/can't take and leave you sick in bed for a few days?
Or perhaps when you read a BDSM story like my recent release The Oath, Book 1: Bound and think it'd be great to be tied up not as a sexual thing, but just for the excuse to not do anything for a while?
In all seriousness...writers are notorious for being overworked, but I think that people in general can be overachievers and not know when they need to take a break. As writers, our Muse suffers. Our health suffers. We find ourselves unable to get anything done because the list is so long it's too overwhelming to look at.
When do you recognize the need to take a break, and what do you do about it? If you find it difficult to do so, why do you think that is?
Love & Magic,
-A
8 comments:
I find that everybody always comes to me for something. They want me too look up something on the bill, or pay their bills on the internet. I'm miss fixer upper and I'm getting sick of it. So most of the time I go to the library and get away I turn of the phone and I'm in my world with books and it's just relaxes me I love it. Everyone needs their own special place where they can just be.
I have regular music sessions with friends which do a lot to keep me sane and functional. But I have worked until keeling over ill on a few too many occasions. Still, the thought of being tied up such that I have no choice but to stay in bed has a certain something...
I'm always rushed so I always need a vacation but I do try to take time for exercising and relaxing every day.
Kissa
I guess you hit the nail on the head. Here I sit eating chicken soup, box of tissues next to me and dosed down with Robotusien DM. I guess my body lets me know!
I normally don't get sick though. I can tell it's time for a mental health day when I start yelling at the kids for idiotic things. Then I just drop the home projects (such as cleaning!) and hit the bed or tub with a good book!
Oddly enough I Usually do working vacations where I can jumpstart my writing projects in 14 hour straight binges. That is when I do the bulk of my writing
elliott
I think it's when my body tells me I need to for me, lol
Ame
I NEED a Vacation really BAD!!!!! I didn't get one last year, but this year i'm going somewhere period.
candaceestes45@yahoo.com
My body definitely lets me know. I have a mild autoimmune disease that normally doesn't take too much of my life away from me ... but when I've passed that limit, that breaking point, the body says, "enough," and I end up in bed for a few days. If I continue to push myself from bed, days will turn into weeks. When it is time to rest, I have no choice but to heed the warnings. To appease the muses, I write as much as I can, while I'm able; they seem okay with the arrangement.
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