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- From: alberti@ux.acs.umn.edu (Theresa J Alberti)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: finding time to write
- Message-ID: <alberti.719179246@staff.tc.umn.edu>
- Date: 15 Oct 92 20:00:46 GMT
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- In <1992Oct15.141507.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au> miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au writes:
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- >In article <BvvHr0.7G2@unx.sas.com>, sascmc@pecos.unx.sas.com (Christopher Mark Conn) writes:
- >> How much time do you spend writing per week?
- >> How do you find the time?
-
- I'm a stay at home mother of twin one-year olds. My writing time now is
- limited to nap times, and luckily they have three hour naps in the afternoon
- still. The hard part is not frittering away the time-- housecleaning, laundry,
- reading the mail. I'm still working on that one.
-
- One thing that amazes me is that I was able to get any writing done at all
- LAST year. Then my two babes weren't on any kind of schedual, and it was rare
- that they'd sleep at the same time during the day. I had them sleep in their
- play pen in the living room and my husband set up the Mac on our dining room
- table, and I had to learn to write in 10 minute intervals. Granted I didn't
- get a lot of writing done back then, but I still did it. Even managed to
- win a local writing contest.
-
- You just have to make up your mind that writing is important and fit it into
- your life. There is always time. just think of how much time you waste
- (watching TV, for instance). You have to want it bad.
-
- --Theresa Jarosz Alberti
-
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- Theresa Jarosz Alberti Writer/Mother of Twins=Overworked!
- "You have to let writing eat your life and follow it where it takes you.
- You fit into it; it doesn't fit neatly into your life. It makes you wild.
- Kate said... to the outside world she looked normal... how could she work all
- day, have a baby and write? She wanted it bad; that's what finally moves you,
- not how it will conveniently fit in with the rest of your life." (N. Goldberg)
-