I got a corporate job and started making money. I got a dog. My writing went in the shit-hole. My relationship followed. Maudlin in Minnesota Dear Maudlin, Six months is nothing.
Writers can lay off for longer than that and then have it all come back and be better than ever.
As for smoking, it has nothing to do with writing, and neither does cappuccino or reading Heraclitus. If this book is haunting you to get busy and write it, then you should do that. You're young and single and you can write your book and do your corporate job too. You just need to learn how to goldbrick and do some of your writing at the office. Dear Mr. Blue, My ex-husband has written me four or five long letters apologizing for his bad behavior the last two years of the marriage.