How do you get over a book hangover?
Since starting my romantasy journey I have been having some epic book hangovers. I would get mild ones from non-fantasy books in the past, but finishing a romantasy sometimes feels like having a rug pulled out from under me. I get so invested in these magical worlds and romances and then BAM! all of that is gone and I am left emotionally devastated. So I have been trying to figure out the best way to deal with these hangovers. This is what I have tried so far:
- Laying around my house in a melancholic daze, going from room to room, being irritable when my husband makes any attempt to interact with me
- Being in a melancholic daze but making attempts to start new books, only to spitefully DNF 6 books in a row, letting each book transform my despair into rage
- Forcing myself to repress my sadness and trudge through a new book, usually with the help of the audiobook version so that it's harder for me to sabotage things by just stopping reading
- Brainstorming my own fanfic from that world, not sleeping because I can't stop thinking about the characters, spending hours outlining the story, and then writing a paragraph and realizing I do not have the patience to write a fanfic
Anyone have any methods better than the ones I've come up with?
Since starting my romantasy journey I have been having some epic book hangovers. I would get mild ones from non-fantasy books in the past, but finishing a romantasy sometimes feels like having a rug pulled out from under me. I get so invested in these magical worlds and romances and then BAM! all of that is gone and I am left emotionally devastated. So I have been trying to figure out the best way to deal with these hangovers. This is what I have tried so far:
- Laying around my house in a melancholic daze, going from room to room, being irritable when my husband makes any attempt to interact with me
- Being in a melancholic daze but making attempts to start new books, only to spitefully DNF 6 books in a row, letting each book transform my despair into rage
- Forcing myself to repress my sadness and trudge through a new book, usually with the help of the audiobook version so that it's harder for me to sabotage things by just stopping reading
- Brainstorming my own fanfic from that world, not sleeping because I can't stop thinking about the characters, spending hours outlining the story, and then writing a paragraph and realizing I do not have the patience to write a fanfic
Anyone have any methods better than the ones I've come up with?