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It's weird: the past two months I've worked on two medium-size book projects. I started out with a buffer of six weeks, wot is a really leisurely schedule. (I used to work with practically no buffer, non-stop... but then I developed a twitching in my eye, and that weird occasional racing heartbeat thing, plus an annoying sleep-teethgrinding habit. So now I'm seriously cutting down on stress which boiled down to reducing my work load. Oh, sweet relief!)
Anyway, the strange thing is that the cozy buffer has melted down to pretty much nothing, and I don't really feel like I've been that lazy. I think the Project Of Doom that I worked on last fall somehow broke my work ethic. Something. Maybe I just miscalculated both projects, but by that much? How did work take over 50% longer than calculated?
Or maybe a job always takes just the amount of time that one has at ones disposal... hmm.
I'm just looking back at the stuff I did over the past couple years and I don't know how I managed that kind of workload for years without cracking. Heck, I did a bunchload of fanart on top of the work stuff. Well, I plan to keep pacing myself and hopefully some of the energy will come back eventually. Soon, hopefully. I just don't think I'd even want to go back to the output I used to have because that wasn't healthy.
The twitching in my eye did stop pretty much the second I cut down my hours. *knock on wood*
/sort of offtopic for this journal but it's been going round my head, apparently, and I wanted to write it down...
One of these days I'll post some proper fannish content. In 2-3 weeks I hope to have free time galore. I've been saving all kinds of tv episodes and fics to go on a binge. :)
Anyway, the strange thing is that the cozy buffer has melted down to pretty much nothing, and I don't really feel like I've been that lazy. I think the Project Of Doom that I worked on last fall somehow broke my work ethic. Something. Maybe I just miscalculated both projects, but by that much? How did work take over 50% longer than calculated?
Or maybe a job always takes just the amount of time that one has at ones disposal... hmm.
I'm just looking back at the stuff I did over the past couple years and I don't know how I managed that kind of workload for years without cracking. Heck, I did a bunchload of fanart on top of the work stuff. Well, I plan to keep pacing myself and hopefully some of the energy will come back eventually. Soon, hopefully. I just don't think I'd even want to go back to the output I used to have because that wasn't healthy.
The twitching in my eye did stop pretty much the second I cut down my hours. *knock on wood*
/sort of offtopic for this journal but it's been going round my head, apparently, and I wanted to write it down...
One of these days I'll post some proper fannish content. In 2-3 weeks I hope to have free time galore. I've been saving all kinds of tv episodes and fics to go on a binge. :)