What does your writerly day look like?
Mine's a bit odd but it works!
Excuse the big picture of half my face! This is me on a literary pilgrimage at a lighthouse with a big cliff in the background on my Lucy Maud Montgomery outing in PEI.
So, it’s been a week. But I am back from delivering my baby chicky to her university in Frederickton and visiting my other little fledge at her school in Prince Edward Island. My nest is empty except for two cats and it’s somewhat back in shape after letting my daughter live here for four months. The bathroom and kitchen are clean, I’ve vacuumed several cats worth of fur and overall it’s feeling like my nest again. So next step is to get writerly.
I got home on Sunday and I was exhausted but one of my kids’ friends was in town and had asked if I could meet her and we could chat about writing, because, as she said “this is what I want to do” and hell yeah, I’m gonna get on board with that. She’s a brilliant young woman, close to graduating with her English degree and very talented as a writer. So I ignored my swollen ankles and my exhaustion and met her at the local Timmies where I hydrated with a bottle of water to make up for the lack of fluids during my drive.
When I met Cassidy she had a list of questions and one of them was “what does your typical day look like?”
This is a hard one because there isn’t a typical day. I always do something writer-related but it may not be writing a project. For example. The writing I’ve done the past few weeks has been for a grant application for a non-fiction book I’m determined to start in January. It would be nice to get a grant so that I can work full time on it and finish it in six months but it’s starting either way.
So a typical day. Wake up, make coffee, feed cats, wash face, brush teeth, dress if I showered at night, stay in my robe if I haven’t. Pour coffee, sit at laptop and start whatever writerly thing is on my planner. Today it’s this newsletter. I’ll finish, make a few calls. then review and schedule it. Then I’ll shower, and look at my planner for the next thing I’ve decided to work on. And make notes for future things I need to do.
Right now it’s about submissions to agents and grant applications but I do plan to write a short story for a competition. Maybe I’ll start tomorrow.
Oh and I start writing at 930am every morning and log into the London Writers Salon to feel connected to a community. It keeps me on schedule.
What does your writerly day look like? Your week? Your writerly life?
Whatever it is, if you’re producing you’re doing the right things!
Non existent right now. Trying to get back in the groove after summer.