Kat, I'm very happy you posted this. Even though I know that other writers get exhausted, too, and wonder if their words will ever return, it's helpful to see this in print and be reminded.

Writing takes energy. Most of us forget that because it doesn't seem to be physically taxing. But using your brain is taxing -- just in a different way. Even when you want to use your brain and create, because it's who you are, it's _still_ taxing.

That doesn't make wanting to do it bad or wrong, and as Laura Anne says, the fact that you _want_ to do it even when you can't shows right then and there that you still have the ability to do it once you rest. (Or at least that's my extrapolation of what she said. Which may be a bit further than she actually went. But I'm going with it anyway.)

Our society doesn't seem to like rest very much, viewing it as a necessary evil. Maybe that's why many writers -- not just me -- begrudge the need for rest.

But without rest, you can't recharge enough to hear what your mind is telling you.

Anyway, this was a thought-provoking post and I enjoyed it immensely. Thank you for letting me know about it.

Barb