Tuesday 8th June 2021
I have been so tired today, and I’m not sure why?
I did wake early, but it was the new season of Fortnite today so it wasn’t as if I was running around in my freetime.
I suspect it could be that I’ve cut down my caffeine consumption. I did this a number of years back and it did me the world of good. However, as health issues raised their ugly head, I needed caffeine to get me through rough days…. And then it became a crutch.
This is why I don’t take drugs. I know myself well enough to know I’d just get a habit.
But coming off caffeine is hard. I get terrible headaches for about a week and my energy levels plummet. I’m incapable of doing anything while I’m going through withdrawal.
So instead, I bought a water filter for the Support Bubble Sofa. That means I now go an evening without caffeine, and unless I do some further work when I come back before going to bed, I can go some 12 hours without caffeine (although I do suffer for it the next morning).
But even so, tonight, I was whacked. I was constantly dozing off on the support bubble sofa.
It was raid night tonight so I did spend a couple of hours raiding. We were doing an achievement run on Siege of Ogrimarr, and my game was bugging which meant I could not leave the instance. Hence it took us an hour to do the first achievement and we never finished them all. Still, they’re trivial to go through without the achievements so we can catch up next week pretty fast.
But even doing that, I found myself wanting to fall asleep.
Likewise, prose was like treacle. I only got just under a thousand words done despite two writing sessions. I felt disinterested in the story, but it felt more a problem with me than with the story itself. As I keep reminding myself. This is a very messy first draft! Maybe I was just pissed off with my word count.
I’m hoping that a good night’s sleep will put me back on track tomorrow. It’s Warcraft Wednesday but the plan is to move part of it to Thursday this week due to having to house sit workmen while C goes and has their covid jab. It’s also the first episode of Loki which I’m looking forward to.
So I hope to get some writing done tomorrow and hopefully make up some of the lost word count.
Part of me wishes I wasn’t quite so focused on the word count but I do want to get this draft done for more reasons than just getting it out the way. I feel I have nothing on the table at the moment, and that bothers me. I feel the need to get some more completed manuscripts out there and before I get there I need messy first drafts, editing second drafts and the like.
It shouldn’t feel like a race, but psychologically, it does. And feeling tired on days like today doesn’t help.
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