My eldest started first grade yesterday, and therefore, we are all getting up much earlier than we did over the summer. During those summer months, I always had a plan of getting up early so I could get a couple of hours of writing in each day, but it very rarely happened. Which I'm okay with, since I had an unbelievably difficult morning sickness this pregnancy and I was very fatigued from growing that baby and, unfortunately, losing so much weight from the frequent vomiting.
I am now in a very pleasant stage of the pregnancy where I'm not throwing up constantly, nor am I incredibly tired all the time. Although, the first two days this week of waking up at six were very, very tiring. But I've passed that now, and I'm feeling myself again, even with being awake so much earlier.
It also means I have much more day at my disposal. I am constantly surprised at what time it is, since surely it must be far later!
That being said, I have not found a nice little niche of time each day to sit down and write. Part of that, I'm sure, is that my family is not into its normal school schedule yet, since my youngest won't start preschool for another week and a half. Part of it is also that I finally have some energy and can actually make a start at making my house less of a disaster area. Yesterday I cleaned and organized one of our bathrooms, shifted things around, and made the necessary space to put in the dresser that will act as a diaper changing station when the baby comes. So it was a good, productive day, but no writing got done.
So today I'm going to sit down and do my writing first, before beginning to tackle the house as a whole. I would really like to get my living room cleaned and sorted, but I also really want to work on my book.
I made a sticker chart the other day, as I do. And I decided that I would see if I could extend it all the way until the week the baby will be born. And I did it. I have fifteen weeks before I become a mother of three, and I have all the workdays between now and then written out, awaiting stickers awarded for sitting my butt down and writing.
I would really like to have my novel finished, edited, peer reviewed, edited again, and agents queried before the baby comes. Because life will get a lot more complicated after the baby arrives. Fifteen weeks does not seem like enough time to do it, but I think it is doable. I just need to make writing a priority and stick to it.
Which will be easier to do when I can have some childfree time. My mind is happiest in the mornings, but I concede that writing while my four year old is at preschool in the afternoons will work best. It will also help when she adjusts to not having her big sister around the whole day. Right now, she's been told that I'm going to go do some writing and she can only be in my office if she's silent. And I have certainly not found that to be the case so far. She's forgotten how to play on her own, since she's had the entire summer of not having to.
Still, right now I am going to go and do some frequently interrupted writing, because it's still better than no writing at all. And hopefully we'll soon settle into a schedule where my writing is a given every day and I don't even have to think about it.
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