Failure

Things got a little tricky since Monday. I've been particularly busy lately, and I think adjusting back to longer posts is something I could have prepared for a bit better. My writing mainly runs on habit, and shaking up that habit was perhaps dangerous. To top it all off, normally I'd be writing in advance which would absorb a bit of variation, but I've fallen out of doing that because of technical issues that meant the posts weren't appearing when I posted them early.

I think in this case the main kind of preventable failure is not heading off the near misses and various warning signs early enough. Actually, I wrote about grading things on a "fail scale" some time ago, which I neglected to do for this. If I want my writing to be consistent it's not enough that it merely happens, it needs to happen comfortably. That way when things go wrong I'll still have some margin to work with.