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The Fixed-Schedule Effect: Secret Keys to Life?

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , on December 4, 2009 | 18 Comments »

My husband often forwards me tidbits from the interwebs that he knows I’ll find interesting. Last week he sent me an article about time management that really blew my mind. In some ways I think it’s the paradigm shift I’ve been looking for, as I often feel lost in the vortex of caring for young [...]

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Kelly: Right Where I Need to Be

Posted in Kelly, tagged , , on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Cross posted from my personal blog.
Sometimes I think it takes almost walking away from something to realize that what you currently have is truly a pretty good thing. That’s the lesson I learned last week. As I’ve shared with you guys here recently, I’d applied for a new job, still with the College but a [...]

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Alison: 5 Ways to Be a Writer When You’re Not Writing

Posted in Alison, tagged , , , , on November 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I recently made the acquaintance of blogger and writer Alison Wells via Twitter, which just goes to show you that Twitter is NOT the useless waste of time that some people think it is.
Alison, who lives in Ireland, describes herself this way: “I am a full-time mother of four young children. Writing is the space [...]

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Amanda Craig on motherhood and creativity

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I came across a worthwhile blog post from Amanda Craig, British writer and journalist, about writing and motherhood. Interesting (or depressing?) to note that she doesn’t think it really gets any easier as the kids get older. An excerpt:
To write properly demands unbroken concentration, and solitude. You can just about manage a couple of hours [...]

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Miranda: Yeah, I’m writing, but OUCH

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2009 | 19 Comments »

What lengths will you go to in order to protect your creative time?
I’ve come to depend on my Saturday morning “me time.” My husband and I split the weekend mornings; he gets Sunday. This means I can either sleep in on Saturdays or get up early and start writing — or a combination of the [...]

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Mom Bloggers Club: Timing is everything

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , on October 14, 2009 | 9 Comments »

No offense, Mom Bloggers Club, but the recent post on My Favorite Writing Habits and Approaches left a few rather gaping holes.
This part was reasonable enough: “To develop your writing and/or passion, first make your presence with it a priority. It is simple. Make time and space for it.”
But this is all that the author [...]

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Writing with the family around

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , on July 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »

From Mom Bloggers Club, a post by Rosemary O’Brien on writing from the domestic trenches: “Writing with the Family Around“:
I don’t know why, but I have a difficult time writing even a blog post when my family is around. Maybe it’s because when they come home from school and work, I may as well [...]

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Brittany: Bringing Plans to Fruition

Posted in Brittany, tagged , , on June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve made a couple attempts to write a blog on here recently, and they just didn’t pan out. The last few months have been an odd combination of being at a complete creative standstill while still running 90-miles an hour with my hair on fire. I haven’t had time to breathe, much less blog. Luckily, [...]

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Mary: December Thoughts

Posted in Mary, tagged , on December 23, 2008 | 10 Comments »

I should be writing Christmas cards, but frankly I’d much rather be here in my darkened study, whiling away the time spinning words around. It was a long, sort of difficult day, with my six-year-old boy having a bad cough, and so not being able to romp around in the snow outside.
It kept us quite [...]

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Cathy: I miss my kids

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , on November 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »

This whole juggling creativity and kids thing is swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction lately. I am, if not actively writing in my manuscript, doing some research re: astronomy and observatories online, albeit while also hopping blogs, etc. I have been regularly contributing to the weekly contest, to keep me on my toes creatively, [...]

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What are you doing tonight at 10:04?

Posted in Miranda, tagged , on October 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Are you one of the many mothers who make the most of the evening hours after all the kids are in bed? Maximizing the later hours of the day may in fact be an excellent strategy, according to the results of a new research study. Forget the early bird; the most likely time of day [...]

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Miranda: Getting my #%^&* together

Posted in Miranda, tagged , on October 16, 2008 | 17 Comments »

It’s been a long time since I last posted a personal entry. Regular readers of this blog will know that I spent the last two months under an intense pile of client projects and had little bandwidth to do anything else. I have finally — and gratefully — emerged from under the mountain. I should [...]

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