Musings on a Sunday morning

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.