Hi all,

For the first time in over a decade, I skipped a day of writing during one of my writing months.

When I was writing Original Elementals #9: Arcturus last month, I missed a day of writing. The reason that I didn't write is because I had so much going on during the day that I hadn't planned for, so I had no time to write. By the time everything was over, I was too overwhelmed and overstimulated to even think about writing.

This is the first time that I've ever done this, and I felt a lot of guilt throughout the whole day. I felt like I was letting myself down by not doing it. That I was setting myself up to fail by leaving a day. But after a few days, I realised that nothing had changed.

I was still writing for the rest of the days and the story was still going on as normal. By the time the month was over, I only needed to write one extra day to finish the story. I was annoyed that I could have finished the whole thing within the month, but eventually I came to terms with it.

If I had forced myself to write that day, it wouldn't have been good writing. I would have been writing for the hell of it, to get words on a page. But it wouldn't have been quality writing. I would have to go back and heavily edit every single word because I made myself write when I didn't have the energy to.

This whole thing has made me realise that I can take a day off and the world won't end. Everything will keep going as normal when I finally get back to it. Sometimes I just need a break and that's okay. Sometimes I just need to be kind to myself.

Now, I don't regret that one day off. I'm hoping it won't happen too often again in the future, but if it does I know that nothing will happen.

That's it for this week! I hope you enjoyed reading, see you next week.