9. Have the kids' computer at a desk right next to yours.
8. Don't buy headphones for everyone else's noisy toys and entertainment.
7. Don't use your own headphones because people like to sneak up on you and now you are too paranoid to wear them.
6. Pick up a book from your TBR pile and tell yourself you'll JUST read ONE chapter before you settle in to write.
5. Make writing the reward for getting everything else in the house done instead of the other way around.
4. Work so hard during the day that you are exhausted and fall asleep at your keyboard when you finally have time for yourself.
3. Sit at the keyboard when your daughter starts a 20-minute rendition of "I Hate Steven" on her guitar (and those are also all the lyrics of the song).
2. Put everyone else's needs and wants above your own.
1. Make up lists of reasons why you can't get any writing done instead of actually doing it.
2 comments:
This is great, Catherine. And I can relate to each one, even though I no longer have a child in the house. I can add another one: a husband who makes me feel guilty because I'm not spending all my time with him.
Carolyn/Cara
My addition is a dog who pouts if I'm not paying attention to her. Now that's not quite true. She's very content to curl up in a corner of my office if I just open the door and walk inside and sit my butt in the chair.
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