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

[kathleenfoucart.livejournal.com]

I don't have kids, but I've heard good things about this book: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Writer-Mama/Christina-Katz/e/9781582974415/?itm=1&USRI=Writer+Mama

And I know she's on Twitter & has a blog (just not sure what it is... google her name, maybe?)

Might be worth a read?

[ltlpengy.livejournal.com]

you'd think there would be some writing mama blogs...good luck with getting everything organised.

More photos of Liam are always nice.

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

I have no idea who is on your friends list, but I recommend haikujaguar.

[felicitydowker.livejournal.com]

Well, for what it's worth, I'm a writermama. Two kids. I'm always happy to chat. Email anytime. Can't say I necessarily talk sense, though. ;o)

I think lots of us writermamas don't actually blog about our kids (I know I rarely do, I'm a bit funny about discussing them in detail online), for varying reasons. I know I do love reading about it when people do blog about it (case in point is that I've been stalking your wonderful Liam posts!).

I'll watch with interest to see what sites are recommended to you!

[dameboudicca.livejournal.com]

Not that I can't understand why Liam takes so much of your time and all - rightly so of course, and the photos of him are really cute - but it would be fun to read something about your writing again too! *cheering on*

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

I love Rebecca Woolf's blogs: Straight from the Bottle (http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/straightfromthebottle/default.aspx) and Girl's Gone Child (http://www.girlsgonechild.net/).

I also love Stephany Aulenbeck's blog, Crooked House (http://crookedhouse.typepad.com/crookedhouse/).

[dang-dodo-ditty.livejournal.com]

Not relevant to your writing post, but I wanted to ask you - what kind of diet are you following atm? I remember you posting a while ago about vegetarianism and such, and I was curious what you kept up with. I've been reading a lot online lately about vegan pregnancies etc.