Mommy Writes Fantasy: A Writing Blog

Another Update...

+J.M.J.+

Well, it seems this is all I've been able to do. Updates, updates, and more updates.

At least I'm not completely absent...

Anyway, since the last post, I found out I'm having a little boy! He's been kicking up a storm and reminding me that from now on, I'm never really alone. With that said, it's been hard to focus on writing and marketing my book, "Kingdom of the New Moon," what with all this baby fever going on over here.

I'm also going through a bit of a struggle trying to identify myself as both a new mom and a professional writer. Do I have the passion and the energy to pursue both aspects of my calling? That's a question I'm struggling to answer as I wander through the aisles of Babies R' Us, test driving strollers and avoiding Geoffrey the Giant Giraffe at all costs. Mommy brain is taking over, and it's all I can do to focus long enough to eat or finish the laundry, much less block out a decent hour of time and force myself to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).

For all you parent-writers out there, HOW DO YOU DO IT? My little one isn't even here yet, and he's taking over my brain. Ever since I found out I was pregnant, it's been extremely difficult to think of much else. I'm happy to be so excited, and I'm thrilled to be able to take on a brand new role, one I've dreamed of since I was little. I'm just afraid the writer part of me is going to get lost in the fray, buried under baby bottles and piles of onesies needing to be washed.

How do you keep the creative, day-dreaming, fantasy-loving, word-producing part of you alive when a little human depends on you for literally EVERYTHING? How do you write through the mommy or daddy brain?

I'd love to hear your opinions and experiences on this. I've dealt with writing and being busy before (having worked to pay rent and gone to college full-time), but this is a whole new animal. My brain doesn't even want to deal with writing right now. All it can think about is how much I want to go in the second bedroom and bury myself in all the cute baby clothes we have stockpiled in there. Or, it's frantically making ten thousand lists of things that need doing before baby gets here.



Tell me: For those of you with kids, how do/did you write and fulfill your responsibilities as a parent? I'd love to chat and hear from you in the comments below!

AlyCatAuthor