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I got a really nice treat tonight!  I went to a meet-the-author event at a local bookstore.  Amy Tiemann has just released a new edition of her book Mojo Mom.  You can read my review of the first edition here, and stay tuned for a review of the new edition.  I am behind on my book reviews but will bump this up to the top, since I am really eager to read it.

I had a great time chatting with Amy and the other ladies who were there.  It's the first time since before Christmas that I did something fun for myself. Even though I was dealing with a baby boy who just wanted to get down and crawl, I felt myself recovering something I've lost over the last few weeks: a little of bit of focus, or maybe just feeling like it's ok to actually think (or, dare I use the word, mojo? ).  Throughout March and the first half of April, I've been really uninspired and frankly just plain tired.  There is always something going on, always someone who needs something, always someone who is upset about something, always things that I am about 5 days late doing.  I struggle and struggle to get it all done and then blithely think I can still add in something else. 

I've been working on my romance novel (which is a rather grandiose way of saying I printed out what I have so far and have been reading it in dribs and drabs trying to make it a cohesive story now that I know what it's about!), and then I find my mind wandering to other things I should do.  "Oh, I should try to sell something I already have!"  So I borrow Writer's Marker from the library, look at it twice, realize it's going to take some serious time to sit down and find compatible publishers, put it off until that mythical day that I will have serious time, and then have to return it because someone else has a hold on it.  That got far.

Amy was very encouraging tonight because she said that you can get a project done in only six to eight hours a week over time.  I had the thought earlier today that, instead of trying to write at night (which so far has not really happened, because I have about 2 hours of non-kid time to get done about 5 hours of what I want to do), I should write all day Saturday, just like I did on NaNoWriMo.  Yes, I'll be interrupted fifty million times a day - I actually had the thought during NaNoWriMo that I should keep track of all my interruptions and publish that as a novel, possibly a horror story? - anyway, there I go interrupting myself.  I do believe that ADD is real, I think you get it from your children. So, anyway, yes, I would be interrupted, but if I approached Saturdays with the mindset that it is writing day, and all the other stuff will just be there too, then I might actually get something done.  At this point, with a baby who cannot be left, and with my husband working 7 days a week, this is as good as it gets.

Thanks, Amy, for scheduling this at a great time so I could come!  Good luck with your book!  And I promise not to write any True Confessions, ever.