We read a recent article by Garrison Keillor in which he talked about post-partum depression for writers. We knew exactly what he meant.

It is such a strange occurrence but evidently it happens to other writers, too.  You work for so many months, even years, on a writing project.  Then the day you send it off to someone - an editor, agent, printer - so that it can take its next steps in the world, you have this heaviness descend upon you.  Odd as it may seem, you miss this project even if you have struggled and been frustrated while laboring to birth it.

In his article of Sunday, May 27, 2007 in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Keillor writes of the finished manuscript, "And when the book is done, which it will be, and it's in the bookstore, people ask, 'How does it feel?'  You say, 'Great!'  but that's not true.  You feel relief, and disbelief, and a sort of sorrow that it's gone and what will you do with your life now?"

Have you ever felt down after finishing a project?  How did you take your next steps toward continuing to write on the run?

Remember, life is your page.