RWA 2018

Thanks for joining me at the PAN Keynote, Romancing the Creative Brain: Avoiding Burnout and Block, at RWA 2018!

If you were at the presentation and would like a PDF of the PowerPoint, please email me at Rosanne @ RosanneBane.com

 

Resources on Stress Spiral

Are You Spinning in a Stress Spiral of Death? (Bane of Your Resistance)

Pulling Out of the Writers Stress Spiral of Death (Bane of Your Resistance)

How to Escape a Death Spiral (Toni Wall Jaudon’s article in The Atlantic)

 

Resources on Burnout

Rewire Your Burned Out Brain (Psychology Today)

Links to more Psychology Today articles about burnout

Burnout and the Brain (Association for Psychological Science)

The Neuroscience of Burnout and Productivity

Effects of Stress and Learning and Memory

 

 

Recommended Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relevant Bane Of Your Resistance Posts

I’m giving you links to a few of the multitude of posts about the Three Habits (Process, Product Time and Self-care) that I think you will find most useful. Use the Search button to find more or to discover posts on other topics of interest (like Saboteur, Tracking, Stages of the Creative Process).

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The Three Habits Overview

Product Time

• Process Play or Product Time Writing?
• Only Writing is Writing, Right? Wrong!
• Word Counts Work – In 1 Out of 6 Stages Part 1  Part 2
• Does Your Writing Have a Reservation?
• Why Writers Should Schedule Distractions
• So You’re a Frustrated Writer — Are You Frustrated Enough?

Process

• Deep Work, Deep Play: Writers Need Both
• Writers Can’t Afford to Waste Time, Right? Wrong!
• Writers’ Brains Require Random Input

Self-care

Sleep:

• NaNo or Not You Need Your Sleep 
• The Insomnia Cure for Writer’s Block

Exercise:

• Drop and Give Me 15
• Radical Solution to Resistance

Focus:

• Multitasking Kills Creativity and Causes Writer’s Block
• Want More Time to Write?
• Step Away From the Catnip
• Step Away from the Marshmallow and No One Gets Writer’s Block Part 1  Part 2

Meditation:

• What Writers Get Out of Meditation
• Want to Write Easy? Meditate First
• Mindful Eating, Mindful Writing

Play:

• The Vital Work of Play
• How to Play Today
• Top 10 Reasons to Play
• The P-Word