Writing Career Tools: Writers Burnout Quiz

If you have made a career out of writing, there is no doubt from time to time you may dread going to work. Even if you work from the comfort of a home office, there may be days where you just don't feel like producing content. Relax, everyone needs a day off. It is when these days seem to become closer and closer together that a writer may be experiencing writer burnout. Here are some signs you may need to step away from the computer, if possible, and give yourself some well-deserved time off.

1. You take assignments because you need the money but dread finishing them.
2. Every assignment is researched before acceptance, no matter how much the assignment pays.
3. Your schedule is free and there is content to produce, but you would rather clean house.
4. You decline writing assignments you otherwise would give anything to have.
5. You re-arrange your monthly budget to see just how much money you actually need to make.
6. You find yourself spending most of the time browsing jobs, new careers and other anti-writing activities just to get you out of your current rut.
7. You keep reminding yourself you did not major in English or journalism and this is only temporary.
8. You compare the cost of training for something else against how many articles it would cost for the training. Is writing 500 articles worth a new career?
9. You find yourself with a short temper, not wanting to be bothered and obsessed with making money so you can hurry up and be done with writing.
10. You think of ways to make money with the money you already have.
11. You find yourself treating everyone around you differently, snapping at them, analyzing every dollar spent, knowing the unpleasantness involved in how those dollars were made. You are afraid to spend money because this just means you have to write more.

If most of these apply to you, you are definitely suffering from a case of writer burnout. Either take some time off or use what strength you can muster to save up for new career training and be happy.