The changing seasons and writing
Pre-kids, I used to write late at night. I worked an evening shift, so I'd be getting home around 10pm and wired. Then, I'd usually write until 1am or so. It wasn't very good and I would end up needing to rewrite it over and over (mostly, I think, because I was so tired), but I got the daily goal of word count accomplished.
Post-kids, I am way too tired to be writing at 10pm. In fact, I'm usually in bed by then. Sadly, later in the evening remains my best mindset to work. The kids are asleep (or, at least vegged out somewhere), the chores are all done, and there's nothing more to do. However, these days, I'm too freaking tired to stay up and write.
I've had to move to writing binges, as opposed to daily writing like I used to have. During the summer months, I do almost no writing at all. The kids are home and, in between their constant needs and trail of mess, there isn't enough consistent quiet time to really buckle down. Sure, it's easy to tweet while the kids are fighting on the back deck. It's a lot harder to write a scene while you're cringing about how you're devolving into the neighbour trash.
As usual, I barely got any work done this summer. I successfully finished all of my ROAD TO HELL edits, with the exception of a final line edit and the final galley review. I managed to fix the first 6 chapters of TRANQUILITY'S GRIEF and I'm really happy with how they are looking. I did a few pages of edits on a couple of minor projects that I have on the back burners. Other than that, I've not really done anything since early June.
I used to feel guilty about this, but I don't any more. Just like a desk job, my energy goes up and down. In the summer, my attention is pulled all over the place. I'm looking forward to school starting in a couple of weeks. School forces us all back on a schedule, including me. I'm looking forward to producing a lot more this fall.
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How is everyone surviving the summer?
