I’m teaching Writing For Children Part II at the Alexandra Writers Centre. We’re focusing on writing itself, as the students found writing was the hardest thing last term – stealing time from jobs and kids and home life to stake out a little writing time. I’ve decided we’ll talk about that at the beginning of each class: How was your writing week?
And I’ll go first. Every week. If I have a really bad writing week I’ll have to fess up, and if I have a great writing week I can share the how-did-that-happen.
Simply knowing I have to talk about my week on Tuesday has settled me back into the writing routine I lost over Christmas. Well, before that. Late November. And it was gone during the flooding and when we travelled and… somehow it feels like a fractured year. Now I’m trying to push past the distraction to settle into a solid writing routine again, a minimum of two hours every morning focused on writing or rewriting, rather than editing or admin work or email or blogging or one of the other endless tasks that arise to distract me further.
It feels good, settled and balanced. I want to go deeper, to write more, and still the distractions arise. I’m glad, now, for an eight week course to keep me aware of exactly how I’m doing. How’s the writing?
Maureen
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