Jean, from Doylestown, PA writes, “With all those books you wrote, don’t you ever get bored writing?”
To be fair, the answer is yes. That does not mean I don’t love what I do—which is writing—but there comes a time—like any work—when I have to take a break, back away, enjoy a vacation. My way of writing—it is my daily work—is fairly intense, spending many hours in front of a computer screen or with an open manuscript on my lap. Even when I am not physically writing, I am more often than not thinking about what I am writing. I have learned that the intensity of work helps the writing, helps me make connections, reveal details, helps me understand my characters and my plot.
However, my guess is that any kind of work—because you put so much into it—can be exhausting. In short, when you are exhausted, it is time to take a nap or go sit on a beach—or, hey, read a book that someone else wrote.