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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:47

Writing Life | Making Adjustments

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So I gave myself a little bit of a break this week to focus on my health and try to get in a good headspace while also still having long days on the computer with work. But I couldn't do it with the writing as well, so I had to make an adjustment to be able to stay in the marathon. You know what I mean? This is a marathon completing a book

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

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Izzy S-L
@Izzy · 2:41
So I'm going to be working on some catch up homework that's due at midnight tonight that I haven't started yet. That's supposed to be a week's worth of work. So that will be interesting. But yeah, as far as everything goes, I think it's really important to say that I'm really proud of myself for actually genuinely taking time off to help myself feel better
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:08

@Izzy thank you 🙏

But when you have kind of work outside of your primary work, of the way you make a living for me, it does still feel like being in school. Except I'm also like my teacher that's setting deadlines and expectations for myself. It's a little easier now, though, because obviously I can change those deadlines and be more flexible. But I really try not to do that because it's easy for a lot of time to go by and not reach your goals
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:34

@bowie a week on hold... now I’m back

Think about yesterday, I think, and I used it to read a book. And I finished the book The Narrowboat Summer, because I'm interviewing this author coming up and I'm going, oh, my goodness, I gotta do do that. And I had plain bad heroines that I should have finished last week. But like I said, I got thrown into this week of everything's Frozen week. So Plain Bad heroines got put back
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:50

@bookishpodcast thank you 🙏

But the goal is just helpful and kind of reminding you of the path you want to stay on. And that's how I try to think with writing. So last night I stayed up till after 01:00 a.m. And I took it as far as I could, but I'm just kind of struggling with this point in the process
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