Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Tea, shut and chart.

1. There is a cup of tea waiting for me on the breakfast table.
2. I habitually make a point of keeping the shutters by my desk open until it gets dark so I can get a better idea of day and night -- but today Storm Christoph hits the back of the house and cold is rolling off the window into my workspace. It is a relief to shut that  out. 
3. It's very easy to get lost with larger editing projects and to start stressing about meeting deadlines. What really helps is logging progress on a chart that shows roughly how much more I have to do in the time I have.
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Haircut, revision and changing sky.

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