I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.
I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.
Having a Weim means never having to work alone again. I have two Weims. When they think I've been working too long, they stage an intercession.
When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.
Most of the time, working as a stylist, you're at home, working on your own, researching.
Labor in loneliness is irksome.
Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.
