Finding Time for Writing

Roland is getting his right knee replaced this week, and the surgery and follow-up will have me spending a lot of time in waiting rooms during December. My very thoughtful husband is giving me an early Christmas present by hiring a cleaning lady to come in twice while he is recuperating, but I’ll still have to take over some of the day-to-day chores that Roland usually does. This means that I’ll have less time for writing than usual.

So how can I make the most of the time I do have? I’ll look for every spare moment and use it.

Fortunately, I have enough warning about those waiting room visits to make sure I have something to do while waiting. For example, although I’m not going to take my laptop to the hospital, I do plan to take the following:

• Kindle,
• My critique partner's current chapter and a red pen for comments and edits,
• Lined paper and black pen to work on the next chapter or two of my current work in progress, and
• Character list, extended outline (detailed notes for each chapter), and any research I need for the next few chapters of my work in progress.

·      I’ll still have to type up the critique and any new chapters when I get home, but most of the work will already have been done.

I’m also going to free up some writing time by using reprints for my blogs over the next three weeks.

Writing is in my genes, and I can’t not write. (Yes, the double negative is intentional.)

So I WILL find time for it.