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could be putting on this without affecting another thing I'm doing as follows:

1. Excess time at office after lunch and 5PM.

2. Going to and from work.

3. Before breakfast.

If to this I add evenings and available time on weekends and holidays, I can easily carry out my program and still do most of the things I now do. The main thing is to form the habit. After that it should not be difficult.

Finished this evening "Sailor on Horseback," the biography of Jack London in the "Post." What a wild, exhilirating, and tragic story. Jack made one great mistake - leaving his wife and two daughters for Charmian Kittredge. If he hadn't done it, I believe he might be alive today at 60 instead of a suicide at 40, broken, drunken, disillusioned, and with great work still undone. He was a genius, a glutton for work and punishment, and I believe a trifle batty. But his story impresses anyone with any idea of writing with the fact one must work hard at writing to get places. It's like all the other things - practice makes perfect. Without it, hard, diligent work, one can never hope to arrive. That is my weakness. If I can overcome it, I can sell and get great satisfaction from it, both spiritual, practical and financial. If I can't, as a write, I'll be as I've been so far, a flop, far from connecting. 

Mother is in one of her despondent moods today, worrying over that vague something she doesn't know what, and nothing I can do or say will make her feel any better. I've been through it with her a hundred times literally, and nothing seems to help.