CW: alcoholism
"I pretended, as we all do, that writing was for me a discipline: write a little every day; don’t let composition run too far ahead of research; kill your darlings; trust your editors. I do none of these things. I have never killed a darling in my life. Omg, can you imagine? It’s darlings all the way down. If I killed the darlings, there’d be nothing left."
Not that I was writing literature, but if I could just accept that I'm going to work the way I'm going to work and that that works for me I'd be a much happier person. Unfortunately I'd probably also lose my 9-5.