New Work Schedule and the Writing Life: Day 2

Day 2 went well.  My original idea was to work for an hour, have my call at 10:00 a.m., and come upstairs to write at 11:00.  However, my 10:00 call got rescheduled to noon.  I worked through the whole morning, did my call at noon, ate lunch, and did a little more work.  I quickly got dressed and took the girls to their dentist appointment.

Now, during all this, I also had to keep track of Samwise, so there were some moments of intense activity, which looked like Dawn running madly around her backyard.  Oh, yeah, and there was a puppy, too.

So, the writing part didn't happen at 11:00 like I planned, and I did worry that I might just keep pushing it off and pushing it off.  After I came back from the dentist, Alison, my wonderful babysitter, was here to take over for two hours, and I was free.  I was also tired (something about puppies keeping me up at night), and a nap was mighty tempting.

I wrote.

Once again, when the thirty-minute timer went off, I wasn't quite ready to quit.  I've liked the new schedule so far.

On to tomorrow and Day 3.  Now that one is going to be a little harder.  I have meetings out of the office from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Then, I have a call at 2:15.  After that, I have to take the girls to piano.  Unfortunately, Wednesday is not an Alison day, so when we get back from piano, I have mommy duties along with puppy duties.  No writing happening tomorrow.  That's okay.  The schedule can't be inflexible and set in stone.  There has to be some room to move.  I just want to make sure that I don't allow excuses to pile up.

Unless something drastic happens, there won't be a Day 3 recap.  Here's to a productive Day 4!

(In case you haven't kept up, here's Day 1.)

Comments

[Mabel]

Keep up the good work.