So many happenings occur in spring, I’m having trouble finding writing time. I know, excuses, excuses. Except it’s true.
My does are having spring kids. This year I have four bottle babies. The barn needs cleaning out again and it rains every two or three days.
That makes gardening difficult as the dirt is now mud. The only good thing is the lack of frost. I was tired of putting blankets over the tomato and pepper plants.
The wildflowers are blooming. I do have that ongoing botany project needing pictures. It is tiresome to get out on the hills and have rain start. Digital cameras hate to get wet.
So do I.
What excuses do you have?
Your excuses are likely as true as mine. At least we tell ourselves they are.
And it is so easy to keep putting off our writing. Until writing becomes little more than a vague dream.
Enough already!
It is Writing Time!
Repeat after me: Finding Writing Time is possible. I will make the time. I will use the time for writing.
What will I write? I have two projects competing for my attention.
My botany project is running hot right now because I am bringing in so many new pictures. This year I am participating in a citizen science project putting up plant pictures.
The downside is how much time it takes. The upside is the incentive to get out to take the pictures and a chance to have some help identifying some I don’t know.
The allure of the botany project is how easy it is to do the pages. Each plant page has pictures and a single sentence.
My novel is complicated. I’m about half through the draft and it’s getting sticky. It digs up emotions.
Finding writing time is only part of the problem. Tackling the tough parts of writing is part of it too.
Several Ozark wildflowers are essay subjects in “Exploring the Ozark Hills“.