Dribs and Drabs
I don’t know about others but my summer writing time, especially once the kids are out of school, comes in dribs and drabs. I read for a bit, switch windows to whatever I’m working on and stuff something into place, go back to reading, write a little more, then it’s time to swap out the laundry, drive a kid somewhere or deal with another kid crisis.
Focus lost. Sometimes hours pass before I’m back on the same track and then I realize that I really need to pick up another bit of reading from the remote database to work with.
The database link goes down. I sigh and call it quits for now — too tired and lacking focus to turn to another element of the task.Time to make dinner and someone’s going to want a walk to the park shortly, anyway. Maybe I need to spend more of the term time writing and more of the summer gathering and roughly sorting?
(So glad that the comment function on your blog is now working.) When this post first went up I wanted to say please us know if you figure it out. During the school/teaching year, it is so easy to romanticize the summer as “free” from the pressure of our family and teaching schedule(s). In truth, it may be free of the latter, but never the former. In some ways the summer was just a different kind of crazy. Good luck with it, in any case.