She started telling me how she was going to sit down this summer and bang out her novel. Just go somewhere for six weeks and write it. Hearing the strain in her voice, I said, Make sure you do some other things, too. You can't write all day.
certain level of enthusiasm until the real deal takes over, because I've gotten over the dread that accompanies small talk with strangers and am enjoying the experience (at least, as much as I can - it's never going to be my favorite thing and that's totally fine). Here are five of the ways I cope with conference networking as an introvert.
Setbacks rise up for all kinds of reasons (illness, injury, travel delays, difficult people). Plans derailed, its easy to switch into a reactive mode where you're trying your best to respond to what happened with your goals and schedule sidelined indefinitely.