I'd like to offer two ways to think about this on-again-off-again experience with writing:First of all, there are those who have compared creativity to bipolar disorders in that when you are "on a roll" you are in a state similar to the manic state of a bipolar disorder. Of course rolls can't last, and just as bipolar disorders have depressed states, creative people have to have "down time."
So it isn't all that uncommon in creativity.
Second, consider your creativity source as something similar to a reservoir. When you write, you are drawing on the contents of that reservoir. If you don't take time between writing bouts to "have a life" in order to refill the reservoir, you run the risk of totally draining it.
Lawrence Block pointed out (in an article several years ago for WRITER'S DIGEST) that writers tend to be quite fickle with regard to the things they're interested in, and he suggested that this was because they had to be filling up that reservoir with all kinds of different things all the time.
After writing feverishly, it's okay to take some down time to fill up the reservoir.
But it's also okay to be the kind of writer who can't stand down time, who has to work on Something! all the time. Such writers probably have more than one reservoir and they move among them.
Another case where there is no One Right Way to Write.
What works for you isn't wrong, it's what works for you.
That isn't to say you can't train yourself to work differently if you want to. Just don't stress yourself out about it if you do it one way and another writer does it another way.
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