weeknotes #65

last updated 6 minutes ago hi! september has come around in no time at all, whilst simultaneously feeling 3 months long already. i am back on the climate grief side of things. i don't want to set anyone off who has a similar kind of brain to me so i won't get into the specifics, plus i am not a doomer so it's hard to take anything complacently anyway. i just feel very heavy. i was working on a novel for a lot of this month, but i think i won't finish my five thousand words in time for the competition i was preparing it for, so will ice it and focus on other things. it feels good to choose to not continue, whilst obviously being sad as well! i struggle a lot with finishing things. the novel pausing feels like a failure, but my ever elusive sense of self-compassion says its not perfectionism defeating me here if i have many other projects i'm also working on and trying to eke over the line, it's just sensible. things i want to do take time and energy and neither of those resources are…