The Narrative Thread: Post Project Malaise? Or, Is It Just Burnout?

Andrea Blythe
5 min readAug 6, 2022

Writing — and most creativities — is an endless list of unfinished projects. They loom and lurk in the background and haunt our peripheral vision.

Even in the midst of . creating two games at once (projects that consumed all of my free time and headspace), I was already thinking about the next projects on my list, as in, If I can just finish this, then I can move on to the next thing

And yet. . . having completed those projects, I found myself in a frustrating state. Suddenly, I couldn’t…

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Andrea Blythe

Author, poet, game writer, and lover of the fantastical, horrifying, and weird. (She/her) Newsletter: https://andrea-blythe.beehiiv.com