Anyone else working on a long project feel like they are going well, but then see how much more is still needed. How do you keep from getting discouraged/wiped out? Do you continue putting down poor quality and go over it later, or wait until your muse gets back from screwing around with your sanity, leaving you with nothing but stale pizza, cheap wine and forty more chapters to write?
* I don't ever expect the return of my sanity, for years that bitch has been sketchy at best. Good riddance to bad rubbish and the sort...
That's how I feel about work work. I love my job, but sometimes....
Tunnel vision. Programmers develop it after a week or two on big projects, and it's almost impossible to finish without it. You divide your attention between what is in front of you, and everything else. Develop a routine that helps you drop into the head space you need to write, and don't let that routine invovle anything that doesn't concern the work.
John Irving said it best:
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
Yesterday I was feeling the same way. I dun wroted dis over at my Slothrop site. It may help:
