On The Impracticality of Being a Writer

It's always when I'm in the middle of a really good writing jag that I feel bad about being a writer. Since nobody pays me for writing and I'm not doing anything to change that right now, it's easy for me to dismiss this work as self indulgent hooey. I should be doing something more practical, my brain tells me. The house is a disgusting mess and there are so many more important things I should be doing with my time.

And, I mean, my brain's not exactly wrong. My house is forever always 100% a mess and there is always something else that I ought to be doing. And if there are no chores, then I ought to be sleeping because how can I complain so much about being tired when really I'm spending all of my free time writing instead of sleeping? And I get it. My brain is trying to be on my side. The thing is, my brain is totally completely not on my side.

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• Mon, 01:01: I drunk wrote a thing and scheduled it to post on the blog tomorrow morning so hey I know how to live dangerously right?
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• Mon, 09:25: So I drunk wrote that thing I just posted and now I'm rereading it and hey drunk self, not too shabby!
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• Mon, 09:30: Not at all interested in going to therapy, which means that I really need to go and it's going to be an awful session of awful.