While sitting down to write at 11 am on Mondays is starting to feel more natural, I’m having trouble finding the time at work. For one thing, I’m now used to reading in my down time at work. I’m reading like I used to do in middle school. It’s glorious. And very hard to give up.

For one thing, reading makes me time blind, so whole parts of my day just disappear. Which is fabulous in the service industry. I get everything done from inventory to cleaning in the first one to three hours and then I’m just on call for customers and my boss. Reading makes that time just whoosh away.

But I could turn it into writing time. My only real problem is that if I get into a groove and then get interrupted… It can ruin my whole day. I used to write when the kids were at school, or playing in the back yard, and yes, interruptions absolutely happened. But mostly, I could finish what I was doing before I had to deal with the interruption. At work? Not gonna happen.

I will figure this out though. Editing, for example, is much easier to do at work. So if I can draft at home and edit at work, I could get quite a bit done.

As for my other projects, I’m trying to get into a habit of doing something physical for 30 minutes and then resting for thirty minutes. And, at least for this week, seems to be working. Now I just need to make those resting periods into writing periods.