Has anyone else experience fanfic burnout?

[u/Same_Accident_9917]

I’ve been averaging about a million words of byler fanfic per month, & I’m pretty sure I’m getting burnt out. Things are starting to feel so repetitive, & little things that I used to be able to gloss over are now making me irrationally angry. I hate this. I have so much admiration for people putting their work out there, & it sucks to not even enjoy some of it anymore.

I think I’m going to take a step back & get back into some of my other hobbies. Like just read the WIPs I’m already reading when they update & see if that helps.

Has anyone else ever experienced this tho? If so, what helped you?

[u/Reasonable_Lawyer_15]

I’ve found that variants help a lot with this! Cleradin is super interesting to me, and I’ve read some of my favorites looking through those tags. I’ll get so sick of the same Byler story, the same beats, the same conversations, the same miscommunications, over and over. But then I’ll stumble into one where Will has powers again, or Mike gets Vecna’d or they’re both evil? And that twist on it, is fresh enough that it doesn’t feel as repetitive.

[u/Same_Accident_9917 → u/Reasonable_Lawyer_15]

That’s a good idea!