THOU SHALT WRITE MORE
I've had family visiting this week. It has played havoc with the goals I set for myself to write more this year. I did manage, however, to edit quite a few pages of my novella, and add some needed scenes to the same manuscript. But between playing tour guide, cooking and entertaining, I found no more time to be productive.
Becoming more organized would certainly assist me in finding time to write now that my family is but a happy memory of a good visit. I know I need to address the issues that keep me away from my writing at other times, set some definite priorities, and make 2009 the year-of-the-writer at my house.
My mind tends to wander when I set aside time at the keyboard. There are so many things I want to check into on the Internet, not just emails but also research--too often for a project I have not begun, and may never start. I have far too many projects that need tweaking or editing or those added scenes and, though I always say I will get another book or two published in any given year, I have failed to do so these past two years. It is time for me to sit butt in chair and work on those manuscripts that have a chance to appear before readers. I must learn to forget the bathrooms that need cleaning, the flowers that need deadheading, and the menu for dinner.
I need to focus on my writing life.
Focus. I know I teach classes on Wednesday and Friday. Time must be spent on lesson plans and flyers for these classes; handouts need to be printed off. But the other weekdays (and a few hours on each day of the weekend) can be organized into writing time, research, mailings, supply purchases, copying, filing--still leaving time for the role of wife, housewife, gardener, church volunteer and (whenever possible) traveler. When I see this in print, I remember what mama often said is so true: "There's not enough hours in a day."
I know this can be done. I've done it in the past, actually did a better job of it when I had a full-time job. I'm not getting any younger and have only an alloted number of years left to get the word out. I need to make this the year I change old habits and write--for my own self, my own joy, and maybe for others to read.
Join me in this quest--let's allow ourselves time to write more.
Becoming more organized would certainly assist me in finding time to write now that my family is but a happy memory of a good visit. I know I need to address the issues that keep me away from my writing at other times, set some definite priorities, and make 2009 the year-of-the-writer at my house.
My mind tends to wander when I set aside time at the keyboard. There are so many things I want to check into on the Internet, not just emails but also research--too often for a project I have not begun, and may never start. I have far too many projects that need tweaking or editing or those added scenes and, though I always say I will get another book or two published in any given year, I have failed to do so these past two years. It is time for me to sit butt in chair and work on those manuscripts that have a chance to appear before readers. I must learn to forget the bathrooms that need cleaning, the flowers that need deadheading, and the menu for dinner.
I need to focus on my writing life.
Focus. I know I teach classes on Wednesday and Friday. Time must be spent on lesson plans and flyers for these classes; handouts need to be printed off. But the other weekdays (and a few hours on each day of the weekend) can be organized into writing time, research, mailings, supply purchases, copying, filing--still leaving time for the role of wife, housewife, gardener, church volunteer and (whenever possible) traveler. When I see this in print, I remember what mama often said is so true: "There's not enough hours in a day."
I know this can be done. I've done it in the past, actually did a better job of it when I had a full-time job. I'm not getting any younger and have only an alloted number of years left to get the word out. I need to make this the year I change old habits and write--for my own self, my own joy, and maybe for others to read.
Join me in this quest--let's allow ourselves time to write more.
posted by Barb | 10:02 PM
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