Kingdoms & Curses Author Blog
Friday Night Novel Time!
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- Published: Saturday, 01 February 2014 08:48
- Written by Michelle
Good evening! The weekend has arrived and I am able to work on my novel. As a working mother, I squeeze in what time I have to work on this book, hence it has taken me nearly three years to finish writing this short novel. What joy the weekends bring; I get an hour or two or more to focus without interruption.
Do you find being a mother takes time away from yourself?
I say rubbish. The majority of this book I've written after I had a kid. In fact, I used to have so much time on my hands that barely wrote anything. So many years I spent criticizing the plots of ridiculous shows or playing video games. Once I had a child, I had no time, which is quite stressful really. But when you modify those words to what they really mean, "No time for myself" then you dig down into really what's important. You ask yourself, "What can I do to fulfill myself the most in this hour that I have." Yes, I could do the dishes, I could take a shower, I could vacuum, but not one of those will fulfill me enough to feel good about myself.
I've been thinking a lot about sacrifice, in the old fashioned terms of "making a deal with the devil." In order to be really good at something you have to be mediocre or terrible at many other things. You have to accept that you can't be good at all these other aspects of your life if you really want to be good at that one thing. It's what was meant by "Making a deal with the devil". To be a great guitar player, you'd have to travel around a lot, which may mean sacrificing any sort of family life and securing. To be a great CEO, you'd never be able to talk with other people without thinking about a business angle, you may never go to your kid's soccer games. It's a time constraint mostly. You do both things in the same minute without lose of full engagement in either activity.
And so it is a balancing act. I dust less, but I write. At the end of my life, I would rather be remembered for my a story I wrote than for always having a clean house with a beautiful garden.
P.S. I've added a lot of features to the backend that will be developed at time passes. Also I scribbled a little doodle on the front to cover up the large empty blace space of this free template (which will be discarded once I have developed my branding). I included the doodle bleow, in case you maybe reading this half a year from now.
