Balancing relaxation with working
I suspect this will be the first post of many about managing time demands and being a writer with a full-time day job, but I’m still going to write about it anyway. Just…what’s the best way to do it and not feel like you’re not doing enough? I get home around 5:30 or 6 every night and most of the time I do pretty well at balancing relaxation with working on le livre, but it can be really difficult.
Like tonight. There’s a Penguins game on (and I am a HUGE Penguins fan), and it’s a playoff game at that. It started at 7, and it won’t be over until 9:30 or 10, at which point I’ll be too sleepy to get into really working on my wip. Do I skip the third period? Do I duck out halfway into the second? I missed the whole game on Saturday because I was working on le livre, so is it fair to watch the entire game tonight?
I know it’s only going to get harder, and I have so much admiration for those writers who have full-time day jobs and little ones who take up so much of their time. The biggest aggravation I have in that department is that Moses wants to lay on my lap when I’m working on the couch, making it really hard to type without contracting carpal tunnel. Still…sigh.
