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March 8, 2011

Writer’s Block

I had another ultrasound this morning to take another look at our baby boy’s kidneys. They wanted to check on some things, which don’t seem to have completely resolved, but I’m not concerned about it. It was fun getting to see him again. The tech flipped the machine into its 3D mode at one point and we saw his face SO clearly. He was so cute! Looks like our girls, I thought. :)

After the appointment, I had a little time to kill before picking J up from preschool, so I decided to stop by Starbucks. It was extremely nice to sit there in the sunshine with my notebook and do a little writing. I love to write and it’s a vital part of me, but sometimes being at home all the time is distracting. When there’s a computer right there with 24-7 access to the internet, it’s like online ADD. You can start working on something and switch to another thing the instant another thought clicks into your brain. I think I need to make more room in my weekly schedule for writing (away from the distractions of home), so Tom and I have been discussing that tonight.

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April 5, 2010

The Write Time?

I have started reading again.

I used to love to read. (I still do.) During the summers, especially, I read all the time. Then I was an English major in college, so basically I got to read my way through college.

But then I got married. (Discovered TV.) And then I had kids.

When I got an iPod Touch at Christmastime, I downloaded the Kindle app for it. Recently I downloaded a free book to check it out, and it happened to be a Christian novel that I really enjoyed. I downloaded another after that, and then I went to the library to find more. It has been a lot of fun.

One of the problems that I’m finding, however, is that reading makes me want to write. I’ve wanted to write books for as long as I can remember. Since having kids, I’ve put that dream on hold and focused on other things. It just didn’t feel like the right time. But now I keep thinking about it again.

I have a couple of short stories that might be good enough for publication, although I’m not sure, but no one reads short stories. (I actually wonder what the Internet/iPod/iPad/Kindle are doing to books in general, but that’s a completely different subject.) I’ve written a couple of novels, but one of them was when I was younger and is terrible, and the other was during NaNoWriMo and is also terrible. I’ve had a couple of nonfiction articles published in a magazine, and I had a poem published in one of the Chicken Soup books. (I don’t write poetry, for the record. It was something I wrote as a teenager, and apparently the Chicken Soup people liked it. It was actually recently reprinted in one of their Best 101 books, heh.) I have some ideas for some other nonfiction articles, which might be kind of fun to explore. All of a sudden, all of these possibilities are swirling around in my head and I’m trying to figure out where they came from and what I’m supposed to do with them.

It’s such a different mindset than I’ve been living in for the past three years. I’m not sure what to do with it. Can I make time for writing? Probably. But is there anything that I can give up to have time? I’m not sure.

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