When I came home from my first residency, I had a mini nervous breakdown. As freelance therapy (much cheaper, if not quite as effective, as actual therapy), I wrote a story about postresidency angst for Poets & Writers. It's called "Going Back Home: Unlocking the Secrets of Postresidency Stress Syndrome." It's not online, but here's the first page:
Poets & Writers: Postresidency Syndrome
