WIP Challenge Check In - Day 9

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Hello, all! How is your Monday going? What have you been doing today?

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Today, I have

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researched.
1 (14.3%)

written.
2 (28.6%)

edited.
1 (14.3%)

posted.
0 (0.0%)

rested.
2 (28.6%)

procrastinated in a variety of fascinating ways.
5 (71.4%)

I'm feeling

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great!
0 (0.0%)

good.
2 (28.6%)

ambivalent.
3 (42.9%)

discouraged.
1 (14.3%)

like I'd rather scrub toilets than write.
1 (14.3%)

What sorts of obstacles get in the way of your writing? Are they the internal kind, or the external kind?

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[juliet316]

Life hates me and I completely hate it and I'm just in a really really dark place emotionally ATM.

[linaewen]

My obstacles are almost exclusively external. I am definitely too busy the last few months, and that adversely affects my ability to write -- not just with time, but with motivation. When I actually do have the time to work on some writing, I'm too worn out to think straight, so I end up procrastinating and doing something mindless instead. Even having deadlines doesn't help when I get this busy!

[lea_hazel]

Once the external obstacles were more or less eliminated, I had to face the fact that I lack both discipline and motivation. It's a hard thing to work past.