Oh my goodness. This whole silly “starting a writing career” thing is tricky somedays! How do you writer’s—aspiring and pubbed—find time in your day to do it all? I want to hear from you!
Somedays it’s very easy for me. I find time to get all of my regular responsibilities done and still have lots of time to fill with writing, submitting, editing, brainstorming, etc. But other days, well, that’s a whole other story. Those days I feel like I’m juggling balls, dowsed in kerosine, and lit on fire.
Today for example, I was outline my new novel while the kids played. Easy-peasy, right? Well, it was easy until they started chanting, “I’m hungry, I’m hungry!” Then it was time to switch into mum mode again and set my story aside. So I started mixing pancake batter and tried to ignore the characters in my head. But I couldn’t—Damn they’re loud sometimes! So I brought my laptop into the kitchen and found a clean spot for it on the counter. To do that, I had to move the easter egg dyeing kit I bought to use today, which reminded me we needed to get started on that right after lunch. So then I had to fill five little cup with water, plop in five little tablets of color and mix once in a while…while I flipped pancakes and outlined the scenes that the characters just wouldn’t shut up about. Oh, and did I forget to mention that I needed to eat also, but not pancakes… No pancakes would be too easy. Since boiling a million eggs yesterday for said dying today, I’ve had the worst craving for egg salad. A craving not to be ignored. So while mixing the dye, flipping the pancakes, and plotting, I then added egg salad making to my list of multi-tasking. Needless to say, a few pancakes were burned in the process.
Now, since I just had to write this blog about this multi-tasking extravaganza, I’m eating my egg salad sandwich while typing…holding on…need another bite…mmmm. *Licks egg salad from fingers before typing again*
So am I the only one stupid enough to try and meet so many different needs at the same time, or are there other crazy writers out there doing fifteen things while they read this post. Speak up! I wanna hear from you! I know you can squeeze in time for one little comment… 😉
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