You would think that _knowing_ you're going to feel bad would somehow inoculate you against feeling bad

When I was in the final stages of writing the first draft of the novel, I was feeling so good that I knew the feeling couldn't last. When you're in a good mood, it's impossible to fathom a bad mood coming. But I knew it was on its way! I had no idea what I was going to feel unhappy about, because there's really nothing in my life that is particularly ba…