Kill All Birds
I tend to have a “bird by bird” approach to projects, meaning that I force myself to do a little every day until I attain a critical mass where the sheer momentum drives me forward.
The problem I’m having with the book I’m working on is that I’ve never been able to reach a place where I’m excited about the work and motivated to finish it. I keep going, bird by bird by bird, but I am so fucking sick of birds.
I hate my book project, and it’s making me hate myself. This has been going on for almost two years now, and it’s depressing. The worst thing is that I’m at a point where, if I just sit down and put in a solid eight hours of work, I will have a not-entirely-awful draft. I feel bad because I’ve been plugging away at this for so long, but I think I need to give myself permission to half-ass the rest of job and just go ahead and send in a mediocre manuscript.
On Monday morning. I am going to send in whatever I have on Monday morning.
The problem I’m having with the book I’m working on is that I’ve never been able to reach a place where I’m excited about the work and motivated to finish it. I keep going, bird by bird by bird, but I am so fucking sick of birds.
I hate my book project, and it’s making me hate myself. This has been going on for almost two years now, and it’s depressing. The worst thing is that I’m at a point where, if I just sit down and put in a solid eight hours of work, I will have a not-entirely-awful draft. I feel bad because I’ve been plugging away at this for so long, but I think I need to give myself permission to half-ass the rest of job and just go ahead and send in a mediocre manuscript.
On Monday morning. I am going to send in whatever I have on Monday morning.