Stress and creation

I'm 23 and perhaps have not created much until recently, but now I am in the early stages of authoring an HTML5 book (on top of my day job) at a publisher's request.

I feel I can already relate to this.

But there's something that to me may be worse than what the author mentions. It's with misfortune that I admit while I think I can deal with the stress of day-to-day programming while creating this book, I fear my girlfriend might go crazy (figuratively) in the meantime.

My own emotional stress I think I can handle. But how do I deal with the emotional stress of those around me? The people close to me are very dear but I'm afraid it may well end up being a third job.

Such crap, endemic to tech blogging, with the end goal being more twitter followers. This is particularly insidious as the author has the arrogance to present the content as 'poetic' (philosophical?) too. I'm surprised some restraint (accidental?) was shown in referring to the practice as 'craft' and not 'art'.

Besides HN is for plebs [1], unless of course you use it for self-promotion.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/benschwarz/status/56899332057743361