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365days: Cousins
Feb. 7th, 2010 05:03 pm
Liam and his cousin Maddie, older by 4 weeks. I don’t know who’s the least impressed.
Bonus photo! Liam and Jilly, his guardian 
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
365days:These were supposed to be cookies
Feb. 6th, 2010 04:39 pm
Yeah, I should make smaller cookies next time, maybe 
In other news, I watched Ink today and promptly ordered it on Blu-Ray. You should hunt it down and watch it. Seriously.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
365days: Someone’s not happy
Feb. 5th, 2010 02:37 pm
Testing out a Catbird Baby mei tai. Liam was actually pretty happy in it…until he wasn’t. I think he just needs to get a bit more used to it.
And yeah, it’s a terrible photo of me. I need to get back in shape.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
A question for the writermamas
Feb. 4th, 2010 05:06 pmHow soon after your bub was born did you go back to work writing?
How do you fit writing into your day?
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
365days: Fluff!
Feb. 4th, 2010 04:20 pm
This is what my life has expanded to include: an obsession with cloth nappies.
The left hand side contains all-in-ones and -twos as well as pocket nappies, mostly from Itti Bitti, Baby Beehinds and Green Kids. There should be some fitted nappies in there as well, but they’re currently in the nappy bucket. On the right hand side, liners and boosters in the back and covers in the front (mostly Thirsties).
There’s another drawer below this one which holds prefolds. And more nappies in another drawer which are currently too big for him (I’m stocking up on bigger sizes when I find good specials).
Words
Despite the fact that Liam’s been sleeping on and off all afternoon (he’s pretty much been awake for an hour then sleeping for an hour, rinse and repeat), and I’ve had time to get some work done, I haven’t done any writing. I have managed some reading, which is something. And I did contemplate some of my characters, which is also something. I may do some work on my character outlines if Liam stays asleep for a little while longer.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
Poor Liam was very unsettled last night after his vaccinations. He was crying a lot and didn’t want to go to sleep. Eventually he slept, and boy, did he sleep! About ten hours with only one short break for a feed. He’s spent most of today sleeping as well so far, but he’s been his normal cheery happy gooing self while he’s been awake.
Writing work – yesterday, was none, since I spent the day tending to Liam. Today, I’m still working on my character outlines. Slow and steady, getting to know my characters again. I’d actually had very little enthusiasm about returning to working on this novel, but I’m starting to feel some again now.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
365days: Bounce!
Feb. 2nd, 2010 02:55 pm
Liam went for his slightly belated checkup with the doctor today, which included his eight-week vaccinations. The poor little guy was napping when we had to leave, so was already cranky. He really didn’t enjoy the injections (and I wouldn’t either, given the relative size of the needles to him!) and cried for about five minutes before calming down. I expected him to want to feed for comfort when we got home, but he just went to sleep. Poor little guy 
But I’d rather him go through the discomfort of the needles than have him get any of the illnesses.
I got the pertussis/diphtheria/tetanus booster as well, so he was in good company. He’d calmed down when I got my jab – which didn’t hurt at all – but when I got injected, he cried again.
No writing work done yet today, but I’ll try to get some more organisation of character sketches done while Liam sleeps.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
365days: Baby Feet!
Feb. 1st, 2010 02:42 pm
Today’s writing progress:
I finally made a start on trying to start writing again. Small steps, but small is better than nothing.
Today’s major accomplishment was getting all of the documents from the old draft of The White Raven imported into Scrivener. I’ve started work on cleaning up my character sketches, which is a nice easy way to slide back into it and reacquaint myself with them.
No reading accomplished as of yet, but I’ll rectify that as soon as I post this. Baby is sleeping right now, so I should have a half hour at least to get some reading done.
Have also spent a chunk of the day waiting for a plumber (and without water) – one of our taps decided to not turn off at all, resulting in hot water spurting out even when it was turned off. Fun. Thankfully I managed to get an emergency appointment with our plumber. Unfortunately, the way they work their emergencies is to slot you in between existing jobs. The plumber just called and said that he’ll try to be here soon – fingers crossed that he manages it.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
Musings on a Sunday morning
Jan. 31st, 2010 09:20 amLife is slowly beginning to settle down into something vaguely resembling a routine. A very, very loose routine Liam is sleeping better in general, and some days even manages to nap for several hours at a time. Right now, most of that time is being spent dealing with house stuff or obsessively researching baby stuff. I really need to start getting some writing and reading of non-baby books back into my day.
So. I need to set myself some goals.
I’m not going to be able to write and read the way that I did before Liam was born, not for a while, anyway. But I can do something, at least. Which brings me to the question – what is a reasonable amount of work for me to cope with right now?
I’d like to start working on a first draft of Never, but I don’t think I know enough about that story yet. The logical thing is to begin working on the next draft of The White Raven. I think I’m going to approach this almost as though I was writing a complete new draft. Which isn’t the most productive way to go about it, but it’ll work.
First thing I need to do is get organised. Which means importing all of my drafts, outlines and character sketches into Scrivener. And going through all the feedback I have from beta readers to figure out what things I need to change. Hell, I might even write a proper outline before writing this draft.
Which boils down to this: you can expect something more than just photos of Liam on this blog now I probably won’t return to any kind of proper metrics until I start working on the draft (and then they’re likely to look pathetic for a while) but I will, if anyone is interested, go into details of how I’m trying to balance life with a new baby and writing.
Which leads me to my next question – where are all of the writermama blogs out there? Are there any that you read and find useful?
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
365days: Little Creatures; Books
Jan. 25th, 2010 10:32 amPhotos for yesterday and today.
We took Liam to Little Creatures for the first time yesterday. ‘Twas a lovely day, if a bit warm. Liam was pretty well behaved and slept in his pram for part of the time.
This is the state of my reading pile that lives on my bedside table. The fiction books aren’t getting much of a look in at the moment.
Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.
