The Today Series: Overwhelmed and Under-Rested

The not-so-glamourous writer’s life.

Cee R.
2 min readFeb 2, 2024
Woman staring at her laptop and holding her hands to her head.
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Today I am tired.

I have a headache that I’m really hoping is not a migraine. (It might be.)

I have circa 6 million things to do — work, blogging, writing, life stuff.

I don’t wanna do any of it because I am tired. But I feel like I should be doing all of it. Constantly.

I haven’t had chance to work on my fiction in a long time, and there is poetry scrawled around the place in drafts and notes.

Eventually I’ll post at least some of it, but formatting and organisation of any level of efficiency is beyond my cognitive capacity right now (…I use big words when I’m tired, fyi.)

I need to write my various blogging/Medium end-of/beginning-of month stuff, but I really don’t feel like talking about myself.

(I realise that’s what I’m doing right now in this post — but this is messy and informal, thanks to Ailya Waqar Zaman.)

Today I am overwhelmed and under-rested.

And that’s OK.

Self-care comes first (…eventually I won’t have to remind myself of that, and won’t that be fun? Lol.)

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Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr