A Day In The Life of This Writer

1. Get up
   
   
2. Make sure everyone else in family gets up.
   
   
3. Make sure everyone else in family gets OUT with: lunch, lunch money, gym suit, gym shoes, team uniform, instrument, music folder, briefcase, coffee thermos and Model-of-Hydrogen-atom-made-from-Styrofoam-balls-and-toothpicks.
   
   
4. Receive phone call from child who forgot one of above items and deliver item to school. Maybe.
   If I’m feeling charitable. And thirsty for a Grande Cappuccino.
   
   
5. Check email, live journal and various writing web pages and obsess about not hearing back from various agents/editors/movie producers.
   
   
6. Open WIP* (*Indicates Cool Writer’s Term) which, in layman’s terms is Work In Progress – could be a new piece, something I haven’t finished or something I’m revising.
   
   
7. Re-read pages written previous day. Either nod and smile or stare in horror and bang Delete key continuously. Write.
   
   
8. Reheat my coffee.
   
   
9. Pet dog.
   
   
10. Check email.
    
    
11. Repeat 7 – 10 until about 1pm.
    
    
12. Go running or grocery shopping or brave a trip into the deep, dark basement where a man-eating pile of laundry awaits me.
    
    
13. Cook, eat and laugh with hubby and kids. Read to anyone who still wants to be read to.
    
    
14. Go to sleep, looking forward to doing it all again!