Welcome to our 157th Road Trip Wednesday!
This Week's Topic is: With Thanksgiving on the horizon we want to know how you balance hectic times like the holidays with your writing schedule.
Road Trip Song of the Week: "Parade" by Delta Spirit
Next week's topic: Best Book of November
photo credit: By Noahwagoner (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
photo credit: By Noahwagoner (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
The last few years, our families have expanded greatly--my mom remarried at 65 to a man with 3 grown children and their assorted offspring, plus my brother is in a relationship that brought the total of their kids to 9. It was the straw that broke the blended-family back.
ReplyDeleteSo we started stretching the holiday over a 3-day period (like Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day) and my husband and I are perfectly happy to host/visit on the "off" day. It saves a lot of stress, from driving in traffic to rushing into the grocery store along with everyone else.
There was a little bit of sorriness that we weren't all together on Christmas morning but we've adjusted.
And what this means for writing is that I often have long weekends with my husband, and feel less guilty for carving out writing time because it allows him to have some quiet reading time over his vacation. And then we're both happier and less stressed, because I'm not worried about falling behind in wordcount and he got some downtime.
Here's mine:
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It's a challenge, but here's how I keep writing during the distractions of the holidays.
ReplyDeleteHere's mine:
ReplyDeletehttp://daydreamertowriter.blogspot.ca/2012/11/what-time-is-it.html
Here's my answer.
ReplyDeleteI think Christmas is the only big family holiday I have. Anyhoo,here's my answer. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd here´s My Writing Time
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'm doing a very good job at it so far, but here's my answer.
ReplyDeleteHere is mine.
ReplyDeleteHome for the Holidays
Here's mine! http://kellicall.blogspot.com/2012/11/finding-time.html
ReplyDeleteHere's my answer.
ReplyDeleteI try to write every day no matter what, so on holidays I'll scribble something when I wake up or just before bed so I'm not too absent :P
ReplyDeleteHave a happy Thanksgiving :)
Ha ha ha, you've got to be kidding me.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, guys!
How I do it: Writing Around the Holidays
ReplyDeleteHere's mine, a little belated (I was on the road to visit family):
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