What I've accomplished today

[apocalypsos]

The only thing I've gotten done today writing-wise is printed out what I've got left of Heroine Addiction and putting it into a notebook to add notes to. It took me ten minutes and yet I still feel very accomplished.

I actually spent more time with my mom trying a Christmas knit cap on the cats. Well, she did most of it. I just stood there and didn't stop her, which was enough for my dad to consider me an accomplice.

To be fair, the notebook thing actually helps a lot. I'm pretty sure there's a few chapters that can just get streamlined into other ones, which means I've got more done than I think I do. Or something.

I may take tomorrow as a mental health day. It's kinda sad that I feel like I need the same sort of mental health days I occasionally needed when I actually had a job, but ... yeah. I'm tired and I'm cranky and I'm stressing myself out so much lately over everything from work to money and back again that I'm pretty sure I stressed myself right out of my last period. Good times. I've never done that to myself before in my LIFE. *eyeroll*

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[catchmyfancy.livejournal.com]

It may not be paid employment (yet) but being a writer is still a JOB, and that includes needing the odd mental health day, and going crazy with it and thinking about it ALL THE TIME, even when you're not supposed to be; and stressing yourself out of having your period - yup. That would be your badge of professional mind-fuckery right there.

I'm Team You Will Indeed Publish because I really REALLY want to read all these stories you're working on - it's tantalising to read about the premise, and hear all about their progress and construction. So now I wanna READ THEM. I will pay money and everything.

It was like when I read David Marr's biography of Patrick White - I'd never read a book of PW's, but after that I had to go and read through as many as I could find....