Kate Mosse
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Thinking about all the things I have failed to do during the day.
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I worry a lot about how to juggle being a single parent and working – scheduling keeps me up at night!
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Unfinished work and caffeine.
It’s usually a slight feeling that, having got through the day, I didn’t get any time to do any writing or something creative – it was a lot of admin, exhaustion from that and rumination.
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