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Thanks for the comment and for sharing the link to that awesome site!

I just skimmed Mark’s post. During the weekdays, I usually have about 1.5 hours to myself to write, as long as my sons are in school and my daughter is napping. If school is closed, as it was for the past three school days (because of a blizzard), or if anyone is home ill, I don’t get that time. I do my best to write in the evening, too, but can’t always schedule a specific time; whenever I try to block out specific time to write in the evening, something or someone always interrupts. A few weeks ago I resolved to have Saturday mornings to myself to write, but that hasn’t worked out yet. (Hopefully it will this Spring!)

Off to read more of lateralaction.com!

I found your post through Joanna’s writings – thought I would share this with you, a great site I recently found:

http://lateralaction.com/articles/creative-block-lack-of-time

Certainly resonated with me – writing around a full time job and other commitments is hard enough, without even thinking how much more difficult it would be with kids! It is not just the physical time drain of hours available vs hours filled with other demands, but – certainly with respect to full time work – the mental drain of wanting to veg out instead of being creative. That is, you might have a physical hour, but nothing left, you just want to gaze at the sky.

Can you ring fence some of your time, get an afternoon for yourself even once a fortnight or month where you can vanish?

There is not a lot of wriggle room for you it seems, so maybe Mark’s ‘Odd Moments’ suggestion would be one for you?

I’ve taken to at least writing down ideas and thoughts on the bus as I look forward to a few precious hours disappearing into the old, quiet part of our State Library, about the only place for total peace and quiet and no distractions I can find!

Cheers
Sharon

I did get up an hour early this AM (13 February), even though I stayed up late watching the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics, to write the new post that I just published. It was easier because my toddler has slept through the night for the past couple of nights; YAY!

Yes, TV without interruption is much better! Have fun watching “Burn Notice”!