Dunno how he did it
Anthony Bourdain wrote Kitchen Confidential during his down time while he was working long, strenuous hours as a chef. If you read his book (or others about the horrors of working in the food industry), you’ll know how insane his hours were and how grueling his work day was.
And still, he wrote.
Me? This week has just about had me in tears. There is a bright spot tomorrow in that I will finally have help on the front lines (which means I’ll be able to play catch-up on all of my “behind the scenes” work that’s been slacking this week), but I don’t expect tomorrow to be any less tear invoking than today was (I would LOVE to be proven wrong).
During weeks like this, I don’t take the time to write. Mentally, I’m far too spent. However, the more I think about it, the more I’m realizing that this MUST be an excuse. Anthony Bourdain did it. There are others (their names escape me) who have done it as well. I made the goal to update every day (which I have done thus far) and I have made good on reading more sci-fi/fantasy novels. Given that, I must have SOMETHING left in me to make that kind of progress… It’s just a matter of re-prioritizing and finding the “es muss sein*” that urges me relentlessly to write this story.
It won’t be tonight, though.
* This concept is from Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.” He speaks about Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 16 in which he asks the question “Muss es sein?” (must it be?), which is met with an abrupt reply “Es muss sein!” (It must be!). In a nutshell, Kundera asserts that there is something in everyone’s life that just must be – it is an inescapable blessing and curse rolled into one.
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