Sometimes you might let something drag on too long: you miss deadlines or opportunities; you realize you’ve fallen behind on your vision; you imagined you were Lin-Manuel Miranda slowly cultivating a masterpiece, but then one day realize you’ve actually just been procrastinating. It’s tempting to react to these periods of depressed productivity by

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i'm really hard on myself when i'm not able to make progress on my manuscripts because i feel like i always have to be writing, and i had to really learn this week to just let myself...rest. and lo and behold. my brain came back to me.