Hi, guys!
Right now, I’m putting a lot of work into my manuscript. My daily routine has slipped a bit—I’ve been spending too little time on my blog, and I really need to fix that, but it’s proving difficult because I naturally feel much more driven to work on the book than on the blog. Fortunately, I managed to film a whole bunch of videos on Monday—eight clips in a single day—so now I have enough content to publish without having to pull my focus away from the book. As a result, I’m dedicating my entire four-hour daily work block exclusively to the manuscript, and it’s coming along at a great pace—I’m really pleased with that! Still, I need to take a short break—at least one day off a week—to get some rest. My brain is starting to reach its boiling point, and if I keep going at this intensity without any downtime, there’s no way I’ll be able to get back into sports or lead a normal, healthy life.
Right now, I’m putting a lot of work into my manuscript. My daily routine has slipped a bit—I’ve been spending too little time on my blog, and I really need to fix that, but it’s proving difficult because I naturally feel much more driven to work on the book than on the blog. Fortunately, I managed to film a whole bunch of videos on Monday—eight clips in a single day—so now I have enough content to publish without having to pull my focus away from the book. As a result, I’m dedicating my entire four-hour daily work block exclusively to the manuscript, and it’s coming along at a great pace—I’m really pleased with that! Still, I need to take a short break—at least one day off a week—to get some rest. My brain is starting to reach its boiling point, and if I keep going at this intensity without any downtime, there’s no way I’ll be able to get back into sports or lead a normal, healthy life.
As an autistic person, I find it extremely difficult to pull myself away from something I’ve become hyper-fixated on—and right now, that hyper-fixation is my writing. On one hand, this is great for the work itself; I’m so intensely focused that I can think of nothing else. When I sit down to write, time simply ceases to exist for me—I don’t even notice that I’ve spent the entire day at it, from the moment I wake up until the evening, when I finally crash, completely unable to do anything else—I can’t even move my arm. At the same time, though, this clearly takes a toll on my overall well-being. I’ll need to make a conscious effort to adjust my schedule so that it includes other essential things—like exercise, healthy eating, and, of course, getting enough sleep.
I’ve recently lost a few of my beta readers, which, naturally, is just annoying—it’s frustrating when other people have lives outside of working on my book! I know this is perfectly normal, but as someone who has become hyper-fixated on their own creative work, it feels like a total catastrophe. On an internal level, I just can’t wrap my head around how this could happen—even though, in reality, it’s a standard part of life and bound to keep happening. I simply need to come to terms with it. So, for now, I’m continuing to work on the book alone, waiting for them to return and resume providing feedback—well, not editing, exactly, but offering comments—which is something I really need. It’s truly striking how much an author thrives on that kind of feedback.
I have two more major scenes to rewrite today, and I’d like to get that done. After that, I plan to go through the entire text once more to edit it—there are still plenty of little errors that need to be cleared out before I can consider the first half of the book finished, as there are quite a few rough edges that still need smoothing over. In the meantime, have a great day, everyone!