Musings on a Sunday morning

[azhure]

Life 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.

Comments

[azhure.livejournal.com]

At the moment, I'm an omnivore. I haven't posted about this, mostly because I fear getting flack from people for moving away from veg*nism.

It wasn't really my first choice. I'd always planned on staying vegan, or at least vegetarian, during pregnancy. I know quite a few people who've done so successfully, so I knew it wouldn't be a problem from a nutritional standpoint. But I got *massive* food aversions, most of which were to foods that were staples in my diet (Most vegetables were well off the menu, along with all soy products). I didn't want to put my baby at risk, and so I just went along with what I could eat.

Right now, I'm still an omnivore, but thinking about changing back to some form of vegetarianism if I can do so successfully without impacting breastfeeding.

[dang-dodo-ditty.livejournal.com]

You should totally do what you feel is right for your body, above all else. When I was weak with hunger in Peru, and sick, I ate the non vegan food because it was all I could get for a while. I felt rotten and a little ill, but not as ill as I would have been if I passed out in the street. You do what you can at the present time. I would hope people wouldn't give you flak for that.

These are the two articles I was reading, if you are interested:

- The Vegetarian Resource Group
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/veganpregnancy.htm

- The Vegan Society (http://www.vegansociety.com/)
http://www.vegansociety.com/uploadedFiles/References_and_Resources/Downloads/Babies%20and%20Children%202009.pdf


When I decide to spawn, I'm going to spend some serious time with a nutritionist, for a good time before I even try to conceive, so that I can get in good shape, before all the hormonal fun starts.