Writing versus Editing?

Does being an editor of a literary magazine drain you of creative energy for your own writing?
I've wondered this recently. It shouldn't in theory, it should energize you, give you ideas, create connections. Still, perhaps at some point - the setting up and the production point- the editing process can take you over, at the exclusion of your own writing as it has with me and BRAND, this new literary magazine I just set up.

BRAND has taken lots of my time and energy, this past year. Some of it was a necessary evil (fundraising, admin etc), but most of it was very, very exciting: starting a new project from scratch and seeing it develop to completion was exhilarating; being able to offer publishing space to new writing and artwork was a distinct pleasure. So yes, hard work but satisfying. BRAND is with the printers at last and I can't wait to see it next Friday the 22nd. I can almost do nothing else until then!

Getting back into creative writing space hasn't been easy. It hasn't fully happened yet.
(It has done in snatches of course these past 10 months or so). I need lots of empty space in my head first. I just heard my interview at London Greek Radio
(with Vasilis Panayis) about Nine Traces in A Cirle, my collection of Greek short stories and it was interesting to hear myself comparing inspiration to falling in love: the same high: losing all sense of everything and everybody else and focusing completely on the writing (or your lover). I'd forgotten I'd said that. I want that creative space back and I'll get it!