Yesterday, I finished chapter 4 of the
still unnamed sequel to “Special Offers”. It’s going well, but it is not easy to carve
out time to write when you have a full-time job, a husband, a kid and a house
to clean. Also, I play soccer on 2
different women’s teams, so that takes up a few hours twice a week. And I can't give that up; it is great
exercise and I get to freely utilize my propensity for swearing and sexual
double-entendre without worrying about remaining
work-appropriate. And as an added bonus, the conversations and random ridiculousness on the sidelines before and after the games can be both informative and hilarious. For example, I had no idea that sometimes lesbian couples utilize a strap-on during sex (informative), and it is highly recommended to take it off the back of the bathroom door before one's parent comes to visit (hilarious).
I keep reading the
tweets from full-time authors who post about completing 2500 or 3000 words a
day and it makes me feel like a slacker even though I know they have a lot more
time available to work on their books. I
try to write every day, even if it is for a very short time. During the week, when I can only write in the
evening, on a productive day I usually can write about 500 words (of course,
sometimes I toil for hours over a couple of paragraphs). I get more accomplished on the weekends, but it is
hard to fit everything in that needs to get done. I wish I had one of those time thingies that
Hermione Granger had in one of the Harry Potter books that let her be in two places as
once. Or a clone. Maybe I'll get to work on that in the lab today...
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