I am just winding up the most difficult book I’ve ever written. Believe it or not, it’s not a book on mood disorders. It’s a book on writing ebooks and it is kicking my behind. I’ve written about it on this blog for weeks. I’ve had to work very hard to stay stable.\u00a0 It’s working.\u00a0 I basically stopped my normal life in order to deal with the problems brought up by the stress.<\/p>\n
In the past, I guess I didn’t know what to do in order to work on tough projects.\u00a0 I’ve learned a lot in the past 13 years!<\/p>\n
– I stopped going out at night completely<\/p>\n
– I put my other work on hold even though it made me nervous<\/p>\n
– I didn’t clean my house or car! ha ha<\/p>\n
– I made myself go to the library to work<\/p>\n
– I went easy on myself when I had two solid weeks of rapid cycling with a lot of hypomania<\/p>\n
– I asked my friends for help with editing<\/p>\n
– I got plenty of sleep<\/p>\n
– I really, really tried not to take out my stress and irritation on others<\/p>\n
I have talked about this a lot on the blog because I know that most of us with bipolar have trouble working. I want so show that we can work- we just sometimes have to sacrifice the other areas in our lives during stressful projects. I know that I could never maintain this level of stress at work, but at least I know I can survive the shorter projects. Believe me, I am going to celebrate with a lot of karaoke next weekend!<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am just winding up the most difficult book I’ve ever written. Believe it or not, it’s not a book on mood disorders. It’s a book on writing ebooks and it is kicking my behind. I’ve written about it on this blog for weeks. I’ve had to work very hard to stay stable. It’s working. I basically stopped my normal life in order to deal with the problems brought up by the stress.<\/p>\n
In the past, I guess I didn’t know what to do in order to work on tough projects. I’ve learned a lot in the past 13 years!<\/p>\n
– I stopped going out at night completely<\/p>\n
– I put my other work on hold even though it made me nervous<\/p>\n
– I didn’t clean my house or car! ha ha<\/p>\n
– I made myself go to the library to work<\/p>\n