So the page-a-day plan* is totally working. (89 pages in 58 days actually. having a surplus makes the nights when i absolutely cannot get to my desk or once at my desk produce nothing but crossouts a lot easier to bear. also giving myself all of 2009 to finish a first draft helps, too.)
if i was writing for food this would be way too slow but as this is on top of everything else it feels like a bonus, fun even (on the "good days," anyway.)
i wonder a lot about how mothers with small children get creative art/writing things done. (family help, babysitters as Hillary Lang explains, and as i am finding a small bit of work everyday that builds up and keeps you going. also not letting myself talk me into quitting on the "bad days.")
And how am i even writing this? one asleep in the ergo carrier, the other downstairs with Nona.
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*not my invention. cory doctorow explains it well
on the ipod: the submarines. you can check out how i listen to the same thing OVER AND OVER AND OVER at my last FM page. i am definately one of the reasons for which headphones were invented.