Write-Life Balance

I picked up my boys from my estranged wife over the weekend. (I originally typed "strange wife"—Freudian Slip or meaningless typo?) I have the boys the whole week. I wish I could be with them more often still. However, single-parenting three-year-olds and working my somewhat decent-salaried, full-time job make it hard to fit in any time for myself.

How, then, will I fit time to write and stick to my goal of one new blog post every day. 

We hear a lot about work-life balance, a seemingly mythical skill set I have definitely not mastered. I'm not sure the concept even applies to single parents of twins.

We hear little, however, of write-life balance, for those of us who have this inexplicable compulsion to scrawl a pen across the page, whether we get paid for it or not. I'm in the "not" category, by the way. I would, of course, like that to change. But I will continue to scrawl symbols regardless. It is my "lifeline" after all.

That last sentence is so bad, it's almost good.

We hear so little of this write-life balance concept, I was actually naive enough to think I made the term up myself. Thank you as always, Google, for reminding me how unoriginal I am.

I found several interesting sounding articles about how to successfully integrate writing into your life. And I plan to read those article. Someday.

I mostly want to acknowledge the issue of trying to find time to write amidst a busy life for myself...and anyone who may actually read my blog. Google tells me actual human beings have at least looked at it. It's a start.

My current plan is to keep my blogs short when I have my boys with me. This current post may actually be one of the longer ones of the week.

I am glad to be writing again. And to be taking my writing a step further than journaling, which I have gotten kinda sick of.

The next, next step will be to start working on new and/or some of my abandoned, older stories. I also have an unfinished Master's Thesis to get back to. All the coursework for the degree is done. I should probably put the damn thesis at the top of my writing to-do list.

Oh joy.