ieva melgalve

So I’ve done 130 pages right now and it’s clear that instead of 5 chapters (150 pages) as I planned, this will take 6 chapters (180 pages).
And yes, I’m back in my productive mood, sort of. I am, as always, dissatisfied with how little I actually do, and I’m quite sure I could be doing more, managing my time more efficiently etc. etc.. I’m tossing various ideas around, so my brain is constantly buzzing–and I have little idea how much of this buzz is useful. This is fun, of course, way more fun than doing nothing. Actually, even “doing nothing” and killing my time with computer games has become better, because now I don’t play them just to avoid thinking about other things. I’m playing to enjoy the game, because I have awarded myself with the gift of “game time”. (This is actually a good idea: to treat my normal do-nothing pastimes as gifts to myself, not self-sabotage.)

Oh, and on September, I’m helping out a friend to tutor a class of Latvian (wannabe) writers. This is going to be harsh, on all of us, but I hope I will learn something, if only not to volunteer for such things Ever Again. (OK, I actually hope that what I’m going to say will be useful to those people as well… But that remains to be seen.)