I’ve been having some trouble with this goal this week. Not because it has been going badly. To the contrary, actually. I’ve managed four days out of seven this week and I’m confident I can go better.

The problem is probably with my conception of this goal. What I feel I should be doing when I write daily is working on my creative stories. So that’s what I’ve been doing, figuring I’ll work on my uni thesis after I’m done. Except I’m not getting to the uni work. By that time, I seem to have run out of motivation.

Now there’s two solutions to this problem. Either I expand my conception of this goal to include my uni work or I prioritise my uni work first, do my creative work after and risk running out of energy to do so. Either way my creative work looks to suffer.

I feel so frustrated. Why can’t I have both at the same time? There’s only a little bit to go on my thesis but it’s getting increasingly difficult to put off my creative work until it’s done.

I haven’t yet come to a decision about how I am going to handle it. I guess I’ll just see what next week brings.