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Over the past nine years that I worked as a freelance writer, I have come across many writers who have experienced writer burnout. To me, writer burnout is when writers lose their passion for writing. Instead, they begin to dread the writing process, procrastinate about writing-related tasks, and feel an overwhelming sense of career stagnation and frustration.

When writer burnout happened to me, it was a scary feeling indeed. I have always loved to write and can literally write for hours when I am writing about a subject that I’m passionate about. However, when I experienced writer burnout, I even considered leaving my writing career behind.

For a brief moment, I considered pursuing a career as a Natural Labor Coach or Doula. Now mind you that I have had three kids naturally, believe in natural childbirth, and believe that women can have miraculous natural births (if they so choose.  But coaching other women through the natural birth process is not my passion. It is not something that motivates and excites me. It was something that I was trying to do to avoid writer burnout.

Anyway, I believe that you can avoid writer burnout if you follow these tips:

1.    Put your IM goals first. If you’re serious about Internet Marketing, then every single day, whether you feel like it or not, you have to do something to further your IM business before you do anything else. This includes writing articles, blog entries, conducting niche research, whatever will help you achieve your IM goals. You must do this before you handle your client’s projects and before you surf on the ’net, or do other tasks.

2.    Have realistic expectations. Remember there are only 24 hours in a day, not counting the eight hours need for sleep, personal and family time, etc. Never take on more work than you can realistically handle. If you ignore this rule, you’ll be increasingly stressed out and frustrated because you won’t be able to get everything done and you’ll feel a sense of failure for not meeting high expectations.

3.    Don’t be so hard on yourself. As a ghostwriter turned Internet Marketer, you’ll experience highs and lows. Clients may or may not like your work, you may experience the dreaded Google slap, your eBook may be a success or a complete flop. However, you must not dwell on the negative. Instead, figure out what works and what doesn’t and then do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

4.    Enjoy the journey towards success. Keep your eye on the prize but enjoy the journey. Although financial security is a worthwhile goal, you enjoy your life. For instance, if you like going to plays then take a portion of your earnings and treat yourself to theater tickets once in awhile. This will motivate and entice you to keep going.

5.    Don’t ever give up on your dreams. With Internet Marketing, you’ll try a bunch of things.  Some will work and some won’t. The key to ultimate success is to never ever give up. You have to keep at it. Just like Edison didn’t give up with the first failed attempt at the light bulb, you have to keep improving and using failure as feedback.

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