how to write while minding a toddler
- Step 1: Wake up eager, inspired and ready to write.
- Step 2: Steadily lose all energy and motivation over the course of the day as constant noise and interruption defeat your every attempt at getting into a rhythm.
- Step 3: Take an hour to write a random opinion you'd ordinarily be done with in fifteen minutes, because it's the only thing unimportant enough to survive the constant disruption.
- Step 4: Feel intensely guilty for neglecting your child by trying to work.
- Step 5: Feel intensely guilty for neglecting your work by minding your child.
- Step 6: Survive until your spouse gets home. Put child to bed. Eat dinner.
- Step 7: Take so much time to recover your frayed mental state, diminished energy and lost enthusiasm that you don't start writing until it's practically time to stop.
- Step 8: Go to bed like a responsible adult, because you have to get up in the morning to mind the toddler.
- Step 9: Like awake in bed, finally relaxed enough to get real work done but unable to do it, and promise yourself you'll try again tomorrow. Fall asleep later than planned, but not before thinking up two separate plot fixes and the outline for your next essay.
- Step 10: Wake up eager, inspired and ready to write. Repeat until total breakdown.
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evangelinedares said: Oh my god, I’ve never read something that better explains how i feel! I’m a big sister but I might as well be the mom of my 2 yr old boy and 6 month old girl-I’m a part timer, college student and artist. I feel this on a spiritual level. This is exactly what my every day looks like and no one understands. Thank you.
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elodieunderglass said: well, it’s good to know!
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