Well, I’ll be honest, the plan for today initially was to take it easy and step away from the computer for the day. However, I didn’t do as much as I wanted yesterday, so I’m going to try and get more work done today to compensate. I think I’m going to set myself a goal of 3k words for today… not as rigorous as my usual weekday writings have been during the isolation, but about 3k words more than I expected to write for today.
We’ll call that a win.
It’s been interesting to read people’s suggestions about how to deal with isolation. The two best I’ve seen was a navy submarine crewman, and Chris Hadfield (Canadian astronaut). Both of them are rooted in schedules, basically making sure you set time for yourself to do very specific things (eat well on some days, eat less on others, exercise every day, schedule in free time and privacy but also schedule work periods and rotations, etc…). Useful advice! I haven’t been “suffering” under the Isolation I’m in, but by the same token I don’t know how long this will last and treating it as if it will last forever is probably unwise. Making sure I have some normalcy in my schedule should make the eventual conversion back to “the real world” easier.
How crazy is that: everyone else is worrying about when they can go back to their “real” life, and I’m sitting here dreading having to stop writing. Selfish of me, I know. But this is where we are.
Hope everyone out there is doing okay, keeping healthy and watching out for each other!