A question for the writermamas

[azhure]

How 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.

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[callistra.livejournal.com]

Vinnie would nap for 2 x 3hours every day from memory. I don't remember *when* that started, but OMG it was awesome. I think I am the only person in the universe to be that lucky though, sorry.

With Vin, I was pretty mentall fractured (well, spiritually rather)so it took a bit longer than it did with Jack. I'll see if I can spot it in my LJ. I'm hazy about the whole thing. Now I look back, I am trying to remember if I started writing before or after I had Vin.

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

I didn't even start to try until MrD was 8 weeks old. For the first several months, I could only do it while someone else was looking after him - even when he napped, he wanted to be ON someone, which made writing really physically difficult (although not completely impossible - I did manage to write most of one short story with him sleeping on his nursing cushion on my lap). I managed a couple of new short stories, did the copyedits on my first novel, and wrote various starts (and re-starts) of my novel that way, in bursts helped by the people around me. But I didn't get back to steady, regular writing sessions until he was about 9 months old, around the same time he started napping on his own. Now I have my main writing session every day during his afternoon nap (somewhere between 1-2 hours).

[aliyna.livejournal.com]

In the beginning, when she was still young- like Liam- she spent a lot of time in her swing or in a sling on my chest or napping on a blankie on the floor. Like Australia, Arizona was very warm, so she spent a LOT of time on the floor, a lot.

Anyway, that made it easy for me to plonk down just about anywhere with my laptop and get writing in. I admit that for the past three years or so I haven't done much writing that wasn't after her bedtime. Sometimes she'll busy herself with watching a movie or something and I can sit and brainstorm a little or hack out a dialogue that's been bugging me, or whatever. Really it's become an enjoyable ritual- I'll make myself a big cup of tea, light a couple candles, put my comfy pants and big slippers on and then get to work.

She's three and a half now- almost time to ship her off to school- so once she's gone for half of the day, or all of the day, I'll do quite a bit of writing in her absence, I suspect.