Failure

Oops. My previous post about confidence spiraled wildly out of control and ended up taking longer than I thought. I've had this problem before, and the answer is generally to cut my losses and start again with something else, but it's tricky if by the time I notice I've already used up a bunch of writing time and energy. Most likely, the solution to that is to have a bunch of posts in states of various completed-ness, to decouple the writing from the publishing a little so if something's taking too long I can finish something else off instead. I've mentioned something like that before, but I'm beginning to think of a more specific system that will help me avoid these failures entirely that I will write about soon.