7 Ways to tell you need a damn break from writing

1. You find yourself using "damn" in every damn sentence you write.
2. Every email wants you want to stab yourself in the damned eye. Even—nay, especially—the ones advertising cheap flights.
3. You delete all your damned bookmarks because everything you read seems like it was written by a complete phoney.
4. You start to feel a deep and abiding empathy with Holden Caulfield. Deeper and more abiding than usual, dammit.
5. In the moments spent not trying to fashion sentences—which has by now become damn-near impossible—your mind is an utter, utter blank. 
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7. Um. Damn.