Staying up and messing around

Feb 18, 2005

Today I learnt a costly lesson. Not sleeping does funny things to your mind. I totally screwed up a writing assignment that could have fetched me a lot of money. First I delayed the work, and then, I worked non-stop for 30 hours. Result: a total mess. Just returned the advance paid by the client.

I’m extremely upset right now, but no matter how miserable I feel, I know there is some good in it. There always is — whenever something happens, it happens for a reason. May be this was a wake up call. I mean, if I want to execute big writing assignments properly, I need to be organized. I need to take care of when I sleep and when I wake up. Greater responsibilities await in the near future and much, much more organization and streamlining will be needed.

I feel bad for the client too. I not only wasted his time, I gave him an impression that I got the work done from someone else because he had hired me after going through my samples at amrithallan.com. This was really ironic, that he couldn’t believe the same person had written both the things.

Hmmm…anyway, there are other projects I must concentrate on now…don’t have time to feel bad.