The hardest thing about writing...

For me, the hardest thing about writing is NOT writing. You know, the necessary breaks we take between drafts, or chapters, or difficult revisions.

And they are necessary. We'd go insane if we didn't take them, and get overwhelmed with our own stories. Space is necessary.

But, at the same time, breaks drive me insane, because I feel like I'm not DOING anything productive. Even when I am. I read, I critique, I work on my query and/or my synopsis, I compile my list of agents I want to query,...