Why Authors Disappear (And What It Actually Takes to Come Back)

Disappearing isn't the same thing as burning out. Sometimes we vanish for reasons that have nothing to do with the work at all.The coming back part looks similar either way, and it is nothing like riding a bike. You don't slip back into it and find everything where you left it. There's a rebuild involved, and most authors never allow for that.Every House disappears for a different reason. This episode walks all four.In this episode:Why authors are so bad at giving themselves grace, and where that habit comes fromHeartweavers: life declaring itself priority number one, and the hard question about who's actually in your lifeWildscribes: coming back after years, sometimes a decade, with sales starting at zeroThe author who was forcing herself back into the genre that used to pay, and what we found when we looked at why she writes at allMythmakers: work-crastination, and why we can justify every rabbit hole we fall intoLoreKeepers: the one who never leaves, and the trope mistake I didn't understand until last weekWhy disappearing is sometimes the correct moveFind your House free: realindieauthor.com/diagnostic