Dealing with overwhelm
I've been thinking a lot about how to deal with overwhelm. Some days, I can feel myself skirting up against the cliff that is total burnout, only to shift myself back on course at the last minute with a weekend off with friends, or taking a long bike ride in the middle of the afternoon. As my freelance business picks up, I've also come up against some pretty pressing deadlines in my fiction biz – which means that my usual strategy of dropping the fiction to accommodate client projects won't work. A very regimented productivity and scheduling system allows me to make…