You should never get too caught up in your writing that you forget that you yourself have some basic needs. Sometimes those basic needs are just simply not being met, nd you need to take time out for them. You need to have some sort of hobby, some sort of interest, some sort of way to easily get away from things, and actually enjoy a little bit time by yourself.
Of course, for some people, this time for you alone means time with friends, family, even fellow gamers, and that's fine. Wherever you want to find that particular time that you can read, rest, recharge, and enjoy some downtime.
That's up to you.
Sure, you need to be getting projects done. You need to basically be doing some hardcore work. But don't forget what happened to one jack Torrance and a hotel: All work, no play makes Jack a psycho. He wrote an entire book on the subject. It's not a very lively read and you don't want to check it out. But there is a lesson there in that this guy was too hardcore in his writing, got a little overboard, and ended up trying to kill his family.
That's not where you want to end up.
If you want to have a little bit of sanity, a little bit of peace of mind, some sort of way of occasionally returning to you, you need to have some way of just escaping from what you're doing. You should not have any guilt from doing so, even though you'll probably feel guilty the first time. Nonetheless, you always need to make a little bit of time for yourself. Just don't get too crazy with it; if you're doing an hour's worth of work and then two days' worth of relaxation, you need to seriously debate what you're writing. But if you take a little bit of time for yourself, where for five days of work you take one day off, you're good to go. Have a little bit of a mini-vacation if you want.
Just remember that you need to take some time for yourself or you're going to go crazy, and it's not going to be the good kind of crazy.
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