So have you stopped writing? I keep waiting for some more chapters and nothing.
Hi Anon,
I updated one of my fics last week:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14160171
It might not be the fic you are reading but I obviously am still writing.
There is a lot that goes into writing even just one chapter. I need to be inspired, in the mood to write, and I need to free time and quiet time to concentrate. Depending on the word count a chapter can take me 4 - 8 hours to complete, sometimes longer if I need to go back to add, re-write, delete, etc.
So, let me run down my weekly day: Up at 5:15 am. Get kids up as hubby leaves at 5 am for work… get me and kids ready to go, drop kids off at babysitter’s by 6:15. Drive an hour commute to work to clock in at 7:30. Work until 4. Drive home an hour so arrival at home at 5 (hubby picks up kids from babysitter’s so I don’t need to worry about that). So, from 5 –7:30 is help kids with homework, eat supper, spend a little time with the family, get the baths for the kids done. So now we have about an hour until kids are put to bed at 8:30. Sometimes it takes awhile to get kids to sleep. I finally get my own shower around 9 - 9:30. Leaves me about an hour “free time”, if I don’t pass out.
Weekends: family time, cleaning the house time, etc. Visit my ailing Dad time (which I also try to do during the week). Writing time has a very small window of opportunity. Sometimes early in the mornings on the weekends, or late at night when kids are asleep (yes, they are still little and want Mommy and Daddy time, so I am soaking it up while the getting is good). Plus I am one of those rare wives that actually want to spend time with my hubby, so…
You get where I am going? If you are still even reading and didn’t tap out from boredom, I have a busy life. My family (and work) is very important to me. Writing is my hobby, I love to write but not at the expense of ignoring my family. Getting on Tumblr and sharing some posts really only takes a few minutes out of my day where writing a really decent chapter can take the whole day. Plus my motivation to write is at an all-time low, between the crap I’ve seen on here in the GOT fandom, to the loss of interest in one my my visual muses (Richard Madden, eh, I’m not impressed anymore), to getting to the end of one of my fics and wanting it to be perfect and stressing over the direction to take it… add in the flu making its rounds through my family… it’s been a rough few months for the writing process.
So there’s a glimpse of my life (which I never post on Tumblr) and also some excuses for not updating as frequently as you would like.
I know I don’t owe you an explanation, but I wanted to answer your message.
Thanks!