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Burnout, Baby, Burnout
Dec. 7th, 2006 01:18 pmJennifer Senior looks at burnout for New York magazine.
I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing at my leisure, but what I've read so far is very good. Here's the nut of burnout though: when the work exceeds the rewards.
That's me and comics. And the thing is, a lot of people shrug and say, "Well, it's comics." I don't accept that it "just that way," which is why I try to make thigns better. If I was no so moved, so called, to tell stories, and to do for other creators what was done for me (and I mean FOR, not TO), I'd have left when my daughter was born. A calling is one of the things that keeps people from burning out.
I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing at my leisure, but what I've read so far is very good. Here's the nut of burnout though: when the work exceeds the rewards.
That's me and comics. And the thing is, a lot of people shrug and say, "Well, it's comics." I don't accept that it "just that way," which is why I try to make thigns better. If I was no so moved, so called, to tell stories, and to do for other creators what was done for me (and I mean FOR, not TO), I'd have left when my daughter was born. A calling is one of the things that keeps people from burning out.
