I’ve become curious as to how much time I actually spend writing (or trying to write) in a day. Thought keeping track of it might...

Well, honestly, it’s either going to help or make me very depressed, but here we go

Thread updated throughout the day...

So it’s 7AM, my 4 yo is the only kid up and she’s watching Sesame Street. I have tea, I’m about to get breakfast and hope that my computer charges while I work on revising a chapter in hard copy.

9ish AM, and I think I got about 50 min of writing in those 2 hours? Edited 3 pages and added 4 more longhand pages to the scene. Time to do chores and mom stuff now.

2 PM-the 4 yo is down for a nap/quiet time, so time for me to work on more revisions. I have done about 20 minutes of business-ish stuff but mostly laundry, conversations with my kids, reading to my 4 yo, lunch, and various online food ordering chores.

As a homeschooling aside...we're never super structured, but technically we're on "break". When we're not on break, I would have done more hands-on schoolish type stuff with the younger kids in the morning while the older kids might have had some online classes.

But mostly I homeschool by shoving books and art supplies at people, watching interesting documentaries, and letting them run around outside a lot.

All right, nearly 5 and I have to knock off now. I got distracted by Twitter till 2:30 and then... I should have used a timer, because I'd write for 20 minutes, then have to stop, then write some more... but I think I got over an hour that time altogether?

Anyway, I typed in 1600 words on the scene I was working on--editing and adding to the hardcopy writing I did this morning. The ms is over 220k now, but I think I'm going to lop off the pre-existing conversation to make room for the new one, so it will probably go back down.

(If you're keeping track, yes, that is two layers of editing on the same scene today.)

Writing while I cook now...

Finished the scene during dinner--another 20 or 30 minutes. Now it's almost 9:30 PM and the little ones are in bed, so I'm starting on the next scene in hard copy...