oh shit, she's being a Life Lesson again....

[lagilman]

I just spent three hours dealing with things that would have taken, total, half an hour if I had dealt with them when they came in and not shoved them into the "I'll deal with this when revisions aren't eating my brain" pile.


Damn it, I hate repeating a grade of Life. But if I can be a Life Lesson to y'all, so be it.

It's very easy to think "I'll plow through on the book, and everything can wait until I get done." Because yeah, sometimes that's a good plan, and sometimes everything can wait.

But sometimes it can't. And stopping for fifteen minutes really isn't going to destroy your momentum. Really. Especially if you're in a project that's taking more than 2-3 days.


(thankfully I managed to avoid any financial or personal* crunches from this. But that could easily not have been the case...)


Now? I'm going to shower up and head into town and do some Celebratory Drinking with friends who just got engaged. And then tomorrow, it's back to work again.





*I have discovered that this is both a plus and a minus two being a two-workaholic relationship. Good, because the other understands 12-hour days. Bad, because when you're both on a tear, as we often are, it's tough to remember to say "okay, tomorrow we're playing hookey...."

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[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

As I will do almost anything to avoid getting on with writing, I tend to have the opposite problem -- the writing gets left. Sigh.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I have a really bad habit of putting things off until "I have the time/brain/spoons/whatever to deal." And then I end up putting it off far too long, so that other things back up, stuff snowballs, and I despair of ever being on track again. Sigh.

I need to start dealing with things as they come.

[lagilman]

The thing I have discovered - the hard way, of course - is that I am not comfortable, either mentally or emotionally, when there are Things Undone. I tell myself "it's more important to focus on Y" and "X can wait" but there's a part of me (okay, yeah, slightly compulsive but not clinically so) that has to get things sorted before I can really focus.

This is uncomfortable but useful, and probably falls under the heading of "making your neurosis work for you."

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I have the same sort of neurosis about Things Undone. Which is not good when you have the sort of to-do list I do (or you do, I'm sure).

The best I can do to control it is make lists. Lots of lists.

[lagilman]

List, and lists and lists of your lists... and a Whiteboard Of Doom. With three different-colored markers.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Yes. All of this.

Sometimes I think I need a better smartphone just so I have my lists with me and synched across everything. Plus copied to the whiteboard on my fridge.