Writer Off Schedule!
I thought I’d have more time to write when my kids were in school. I thought I’d be able to crank out pages of perfect prose now that I wasn’t homeschooling. I thought I’d be finished editing my WIP by now.
I was wrong.
When I was homeshooling, I used to hire a babysitter to watch the kids on Fridays for a couple of hours while I wrote. Not only would she play and homeschool my children, but she’d do laundry as well.
Now there’s no babysitter, no writing, and endless laundry!
Where is all my time being spent (beside blogging?) Good question.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday I spend time with Grace (5) and other household necessities. Tuesdays and Thursdays (days Grace is in Kindergarten) are my designated writing days. I should have three and half good hours to write before I have to pick up my boys, and I usually do spend those hours writing, but lately things haven’t gone as planned.
At least once a week for the past six weeks it seems Iâve been going on field trips on my designated writing days. It’s a love-hate situation. I love going on field trips with my kids. I hate missing out on my writing day.
Then early this week an amazing thing happened. No field-trips scheduled on Tuesday or Thursday. So Monday night I was all psyched to have a full six hours to write these week. I was going to get a lot of writing done, right?
Wrong.
Early that evening I felt a stomach bug coming on. Though I usually have a stomach of steel, it hit me hard and knocked me out for 24 hours. I was so wiped out the next day and still slightly nauseous that I couldnât write or even read! My whole WRITING day wasted in bed!
Thursday’s writing day was shot also when I overslept because of my whacked body schedule from the âbug.”
Fast forward to Saturday. I planned on writing all day, but felt physically drained. I managed to lug my computer to the library where I felt like falling asleep instead of writing, but accomplished some editing.
Needless to say, I’m ready and anxious to get back on track physically, spiritually and writerly! I know writer interruptions are a normal occurrence in the life of an interrupted writer, but I’m ready to get back on schedule.
How about you? How’s you’re writing been going lately? Anything like mine?
