How do you write all day for work and then try to work on books or whatever at night? You drink a bottle of wine and go to sleep, that's what.
To fight this syndrome, I suckered myself into serializing a book for LAist, the fine Los Angeles publication edited by Tony Pierce. The alleged book is called Stucco Apocalypse, and it's a non-fiction thing about the coming collapse of Southwestern U.S. civilization due to a quadruple-pronged prong of permanent drought, permanent oil shortages, environmental collapse, real estate/economic collapse and race/class war. It is, obviously, a comedy -- but a comedy of hope.
Go read the introductory chapter here at LAist, The Quick Goodbye, and look for a new chapter every week or so.