Hi WriteByNighters,
If you're anything like me, your job involves a great deal of reading and writing. You probably also do a lot of extracurricular reading on your phone: news, social media, text messages.
So at the end of a long day dealing with text, how do you have enough headspace left to write or read for pleasure?
On this recent episode of Yak Babies, my co-hosts, Aaron and Sean, and I talk about the reading and writing burnout we experience and the ways we try to combat it. All three of us spend our days working with the words of others, which sometimes/often can make it difficult to create our own at
night.
And reading for pleasure can be just as daunting -- partly because we read more than ever before... on our smartphones. Like Aaron says, "I feel more burned out with reading now because ... I'm even more text saturated than I was before."
So what I want to talk about this week is the impact your work life has on your literary life. Do you find it difficult to read and/or write for pleasure after a long day of doing those things at work? Does technology have a similar impact on your writing/reading?
Most importantly, how do we combat these things?
