Mostly good here. I'm working full-time on finishing a fiction manuscript and it's taking longer than I want. This isn't a bad thing in itself—my writing progre

Mostly good here. I'm working full-time on finishing a fiction manuscript and it's taking longer than I want. This isn't a bad thing in itself—my writing progress has been steady and forward—but I struggle with anxiety across all areas of my life and if I don't take precautions to manage my mood then I feel every passing minute as an acute failure to finish my book. That sounds grim but I still say "mostly good" because I'm so grateful for the overall conditions of my life: a lovely walkable neighborhood with kind strangers around every turn, robust family and support networks, fast internet, great coffee. The little things. One tactic I find has been great for avoiding unwanted emotional injury is staying off Twitter. At best it's a catalogue of everyone's successes who isn't you, at worst it's the comments section of a news website where the news is all bad. YMMV, but if you're an emotionally sensitive person navigating an uncertain period in life I can't recommend it highly enough.