I am starting to get really depressed here.  Back at Katsucon, two
months ago, I had mentioned at the panel that I was going to write a
TENCHI MUYO! story entitled "Mother's Day", which I hoped to have
done by Mother's Day.

Well, two months have gone by, Mother's Day has come and gone, and I
have written *squat*.  No, scratch that.  I wrote the prologue four
weeks ago, but it's garbage and I can't release it.  Near the end, I
was getting tired, but I was afraid to quit writing for fear I
wouldn't be able to start again any time soon, so I rushed it.

I am having a great deal of trouble finding time to write while
working full-time.  Work takes the best hours of the day from me.
I'd love to write after coming home, but I just don't know how.  I'm
too drained.  In a sense, the problem is that my job is too
interesting.  As a software engineer, I write code and hunt down bugs
all day long.  By the end of the day, I'm all thunk out.  When I sold
shoes, I had problems with being tired, but I still managed to push
out a chapter of something every month.  The job was maddeningly
boring, so I had plenty of time to work through story ideas in my
head.

I'd be curious to know how other people manage to work full-time and
still remain an active fanfic writer.  Or perhaps fanfic writing is
better left to the college kids.  :-(

------RM

Well, full time jobs _and_ Junior High both take out the best hours of the
day.  Only at Junior High, you get a Study Period!

Mako