How To Cope with Writing Life Anxiety

The super-fast pace of the Internet has turned a generation of writers into obsessive and anxious workers.

Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Anne Kreamer talking about her new book, It’s Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace. Kreamer (pictured, via Lucy Andersen) shared tips for coping with the pace and emotions of the 21st Century writing world.

Follow this MP3 link to listen. Here’s an excerpt: “For a lot of us who work remotely, you’ll send something off into the ether at some large office building and you don’t hear back and you don’t hear back. The default position is: ‘Oh my gosh, they think I’m terrible; this is the end of the world. What’s the right thing to do? Do I bother them? Do I write them? Do they hate it? ‘”

She concluded: “The reality is they are all incredibly busy. In a situation like that I think the best thing you can do is get out of the house. It gives you a break, it allows you to breathe, it puts you in a different space and starts to fill your creative well. It removes you from that obsessive compulsive checking–’Have they responded, have they responded?’”

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