To Essay or Not To Essay

There are some things toxic to essay writing: 1.) the constant gnawing anxiety of having to complete work to turn it in, and 2.) The drained feeling one gets, one can feel physically in the bones and mentally, after standing in a warehouse for 8 hours, heaving lifting, and performing other creativity crushing repetitive tasks. I often feel envy for those professional writers who can get a full nights sleep, wake up, make breakfast and proceed to his camp out in some nook in a cafe where all mental and physical energy can be focused like a laser on the task at hand.

But for now...This is the reality of a lot of college students. Does this exhaustion bleed out on the pages somehow? Maybe writing suffers, cripples and wanes. Maybe corners are cut. Maybe a bit of frustration and aggression is communicated subtextual.