Who said that you have to be Mary Sunshine? Who said that you’re not allowed to have blah days, or motivation drops, or moments where you just want to retreat inward and secrete yourself away from the world, safely in the confines of your own mind? Why the fuck must you always be on? Why must you always be the supporter, never the one who is taking a breather to nourish their own creative soul?

Your motivation will come back. It can’t not come back, because being a writer is such a large part of your identity. You’ve got a heart that’s stitched together with words, a stream of consciousness instead of rivers of blood. If I cut your arm, you’d bleed a dictionary. ‘Writer’ is what you are.

What really starts the words coagulating in the mind? Experiences. Feelings. Moments like this, where you feel pissed off/fucked up/ drained by parasitic vampires / lacking time to just sit and eat cheese and drink champagne (or whatever your go-to thing is). Just know that this moment will pass, and when it does, you’re going to have a lot of new feelings & thoughts to meld into beautiful pieces.

Feeling burned out means you need a breather, so take a rest and don’t feel guilty about it. You wouldn’t overwork a torn muscle, right? Why overwork a tired heart, then? Rest up, trust that the spark will return, stop being so hard on yourself. Wait for the magical aha moment, because it’s coming.

Sending you so much love 🩷