I know the key to being a successful writer is time management. Being a poet, I have become accustomed to keeping my notebook at the ready, jotting down lines, ideas and images that come to my head. Many times, these scribblings will sit on the lined pages only to be revisited weeks or months down the road. After some reworking, tweaking and polishing, they become full-fledged poems. That is how I've been working for many years.
But it seems as if this summer my fool-proof system got messed up. The train derailed. Life got in the way. Family commitments, weddings, travel itineraries, school schedules, you name it. I counted 16 days out of the last 28 that I was either living out of a suitcase or rushing to catch a plane somewhere. Fortunately, I'm back home now, albeit completely exhausted. But where is the notebook brimming with ideas? Lines scrawled from 30,000 feet above, where I used to feverishly work to take my mind off the anxieties of flying? Somehow I have veered far off the beaten path. I feel as if my brain is a blank sheet of paper. Is this just a dry spell, a temporary writer's block that I will overcome? Only time will tell.
Time. That's what I seem to need more of these days. As a mother of two, my days seem cram packed with carpools, orthodontist appointments, telephone calls, grocery shopping, laundry and more laundry!! I have just got to get back on track and carve out specific periods of time that I will block out the world, the internet, the cell phone, and just WRITE. I used to do it so easily, pen in hand, scrawling sonnets as I blow dried my hair or waited in doctor's offices. I hope to get back on point (when school gets back in session next week) and get some more me time. More writing time!
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