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My Reply to "Permission to Stop Burning Out" from Alicia McCalla

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This event began 08/29/2025 and repeats every year forever

 

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I think every writer finds out their rhythm eventually cause they have to. The more you write what you find out is you let out alot of imagination. And you start seeing repeating ideas which means you need to embrace what you have created. 
I give as an example, Edgar Allen Poe. I have his complete works of fiction, poems stories everything in one big book . If I look at my own fiction. I have a larger book , even before the age poe died. And like Poe or every other writer I have more sketches and similars. So, you have to embrace what you have created. And spend more time being honest about new roads of imagination if roads have closed. 
Keannu reeves and the director of the John Wick series  , who collaboratively wrote the stories/screenplays, were going to stop at chapter 3, because they didn't see anything else. It was done. But they saw a story for four and thus did it. But it took some time, because they had made a huge world. And the studios said,after four,  where is five now, and they said, they have to wait and see. If John Wick five happens it will be some time. 
The lesson is the same thing I said, part of writers gaining a schedule is admitting when they have written their imagination out. When I look at some movies for certain manga like Ghost in the shell with johanssen or the Statian, Avatar the last airbender movie from shamalah. The problem the movies have is both shows/books covered everything. They did everything you could do. No hour and a half movie was going to do something new that hadn't already been done in the show with the main characters. So, they both needed to go to uncharted places. Back to John Wick, when you look at the Ballerina film, the coming Kane film, that proves my point. John Wick has been completely done. But the world created for John Wick has space for other characters to be born and grow.  
And that relates to all writers. If you have burned out, and I am lucky to not have, look back at your work and realize its worth. You may find more than you realized. Have patience and relax, you earned it based on volume, even if you don't have million dollar book deals or contracts to write screenplays. 

 

COMMENT URL

https://substack.com/note/c-150400293

 

POST URL from Alicia McCalla

https://aliciamccalla.substack.com/p/permission-to-stop-burning-out-the

 

Permission to Stop Burning Out: The Rhythm That Saved My Writing Life by Alicia McCalla

How I Stopped Chasing Word Counts And Started Building A Sustainable Author Empire

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