Grayman and I are turning over a new leaf. We're working out together four or five nights a week after the kids are in bed. Proud of us? I am! I still have a postpartum belly to shed. We got a TV for the exercise room and bought a show--Dexter--which I actually hated, so we're going to try something else. Suggestions? I like the dark and gritty, (but not too dark and gritty!) and Adam likes the light, so we're actually pretty hard to please. Shows we've watched together in the past include Lost, Fringe, House, Arrested Development, and 24. We tried Alcatraz this past weekend, and plan on watching that, but that's only one show a week. Too bad I can't convince him to watch The Vampire Diaries or Pretty Little Liars.
But with this new ambition, I'm hitting the writing seriously again. My goal is to hack 1,000 words per day, as long as my kiddos will allow. But today I was truly brilliant and saw my baby might fall asleep on the way to take my daughter to preschool and since I know he tends to wake up when I take him out of the car, I brought the laptop in the car and--kabbam!--I had 700 words spilling out of my fingertips and another 300 when I hid the laptop behind the tall building blocks while he played. He'll soon get too clever for that, but I'm constantly reinventing ways to keep up with the writing. I'm sure many of you understand, whether it's because of your kids or your day jobs or other commitments. So you tell me, what genius plan panned out for you so that you could write (or achieve whatever goal you set out)?
No genius plan. I operate on FIT IT IN. My husband and I liked the British Robin Hood Series.
ReplyDeleteYes, FIT IT IN sounds just about right. I've heard good things about Robin Hood... maybe we should watch that. :)
ReplyDeleteWow, you are like, a guerrilla writer! I try to take advantage of spare moments like that, like my kid's piano lessons.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. I can't wait for all of my kids to be old enough so that I can seize those types of moments, too. :)
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate your question. Since you have kids it's really difficult to maintain your writing limit. So as mine you just have to manage till they grow up certain age where caring is minimised. I think you have now point. Nice!
ReplyDeleteHow is the exercise going? Well, I hope, and also the writing! I think of you often.
ReplyDeleteAnn Best, Author of In the Mirror & Other Memoirs
This week and last? I've done well with the exercising--three times last week, three times and counting this week. The writing has gone a bit slower--i may have to adjust my 1000 words/day goal since yesterday I worked more on beauty than quantity and I'm not sure what I'll be able to hammer out tonight, but you're keeping me accountable and my obsession with accomplishing something will help me to keep clomping along.
ReplyDeleteIs this true your memoir is/has been #1 on Amazon's memoir list??? Ann, I KNOW you!!!
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