An/my evolving relationship with academic writing

It's been about five years since I defended my dissertation (oh my! How time does fly!), and I caught myself thinking about my evolving relationship with academic writing. While I've been somewhat active over the past few years, I also find that I'm a lot less interested in producing academic/journal writing as a genre of writing. And, when I want to engage in such an activity, 'going at it alone' when I don't have a guaranteed venue of publication (i.e., you write the article first and then submit to a journal for review), feels a lot less palatable as an activity during my leisure time. I neither need for professional purposes, nor do I have time during my regular work day for this kind of activity, so it's classified as leisure for me personally (is there an academic equivalent like athleisure, I wonder...🤔).I make the distinction between writing for journals and writing chapters for books. Not that writing chapters for books is a guaranteed venue, once your proposal is accepted,…