Write On, Wednesday: Woes of a Writer, Finding the Time
By Leslie Lindsay It’s not the actual writing that’s hard, it’s the fitting-in of the writing that is hard. I have been going 90 to nothing the last few weeks, and do be honest, I don’t really know what I have to show for it. Very little progress on my novel, that’s for darn sure! You’re thinking, “What is she talking about?! I mean, she doesn’t have a full-time job or anything.” And yes, I would nod my head politely and smile. It’s true. I am a stay-at-home mom. I have a first grader who is in school for 7 hours a day. I have a pre-Ker who is in some kind of structured class 5 days a week, but not all day. I do a lot of driving around town to get her to her various “learning opportunities.” Even if I did have two kids in school 7 hours a day, that’s still not a full 8-hour work day in which I devote 100% to writing. Nope. I still have toilets that need scrubbing, …