Plans never survive contact with reality unchanged. But sometimes they can come close. I sometimes get more done if I do plan my time loosely.

This week is the end of August. Next Friday at midnight the end of Friday is the start of the Three Day Novel that is one of two great novelwriting highlights of my year. If I don't make time to write a ( Read more... )

And having actually gotten a full night's sleep this time, I am back to my usual optimism and lack of terrors. Being sick is what brings on the terrors. Body weakness makes anything in the world seem like an insurmountable challenge -- often because it is, if I'm in that state, things like picking up something that dropped or remembering which ( Read more... )