The Writers Dilemma

Some weeks, everything works smoothly. You stick to your routine, your projects progress smoothly, your business runs like clockwork and delivers, just as it should. 

Some weeks, everything is chaos. Work demands sudden and necessary stretches of overtime that throw your routine into chaos, just as deadlines come due on other projects, and your support team disappears because of personal tragedy, injury, or illness. 

You set your default expectation of “how much writing I can do” by one of these two situations, but it will serve you poorly when the other situation is in play.

There is something to be said for surveying the landscape and resetting your expectations based on the now, rather than the normal.