The Difficulties Of Taking A Break From Writing As A Beginner

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As I mentioned previously, my girlfriend came to visit France for a week recently and I preemptively wrote most of my articles for that period.

It felt great taking a small break but it also was a pleasure to get back into writing after almost a week without writing.

While a week isn’t much compared to a lifetime, as a beginner writer, it has made me realise the difficulties of coming back to the basics and getting back into a flowing creative state of mind.

As everybody knows, writing is a creative task and needs concentration.

Unfortunately, being away from my computer for a week and coming back to writing whilst still on holidays in France seems to have hindered that capability a bit.

We are creatures of habits. Without those, we fail to improve and even do simple tasks sometimes.

While writing in itself hasn’t gotten that much harder, the task of finding topics appears to have gotten much harder after just a week without writing.

I do believe taking breaks is important and they allow us to get a fresh start when diving back in. However, this really is the case only if the habit and skills have been cemented beforehand.