In a message dated 97-05-14 18:50:56 EDT, you write:

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, I work 3rd shift doing tech support, I am able to do some wrinting at
work and a little at the house If I am not busy with something else,
basically I just make sure I am enthusiatic about the story Im on and kepp
pegging away at it every other day at least, even if I just get a paragraph
written or revised it keeps the idea fresh. 

kent