Sunday morning

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I need to get back into blogging regularly again.  I think some of the reason why I’ve been quiet here is that I haven’t been actively writing.  For me writing feed blogging, which feeds writing, and so on and so on.

I have been researching like crazy.  And have a stack of research to go.  Slowly working up an outline for Thought and Memory, building the foundation on which I’ll start writing.  I’m aching to start the actual writing, to be honest.  I actually sat down on Friday and decided to just start writing without an outline.  And got about two paragraphs before I was looking for my outline.  Has this pantser become an outline writer?

Apart from the research, I’ve just been exhausted.  Sleeping like crazy and still needing more sleep.  Which has cut into my reading time, also.  Which always frustrates me, and leads to a lack of writing.  My whole life is a series of word-fueled cycles, and when one falters, they all do.

Despite the lack of words and exhaustion, life is good.  As I sit here typing this (stealing time from when I should be doing housework), my husband is playing with my kid.  I can hear them in the other room, reading books (“A star is also a sun”, my husband corrects one of the kid’s books – adorable) and playing on a toy keyboard.

Even though the first year (plus a few months) of my kid’s life was really hard for me (chronic illness and postnatal depression + sleepless and high needs kid = UNFUN), it’s a joy seeing him now at eighteen months.  He’s cut all of the teeth he should have by now and he’s sleeping well.  He’s not the most advanced with speaking, but he gets what he needs to across well enough.  He’s such a calm little soul now, always curious and always learning.  He’s showing signs of being an early reader (like both of his parents) and loves books (WIN).  He also loves being outside, and is crazy obsessed with the moon, with planes and trucks and cars and motorbikes.  He is an amazing little kid, and I am grateful to have him in my life every day.

And there’s your mushy rambling done for the week.  Hopefully I can actually get some writing done this week, and talk about words here.

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