It's Sunday in Cape Town!

[whipchick]

And for all my dear friends in the Northern Hemisphere, I am absolutely NOT GLOATING about the sunny, breezy days and cool evenings around the fire pit. I’m sure your snowmen, frosty windows, and slushy roads are BEAUTIFUL.

This week I was debating whether or not to buy It Chooses You by Miranda July, and while the eventual answer was “look in a

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[xo_kizzy_xo]

Re mothers and efficiency -- I still remember reading how Sylvia Plath set her writing schedule down to the second once she had her children. She woke up two hours earlier than they did to write, she gave them undivided attention for X amount of time before writing again, she wrote during their naptime, and after she'd put them to bed. One of her journal entries IIRC outlines it in meticulous detail. I just remember thinking how mind-blowing it was to my free-and-easy schedule, but it makes perfect sense because, as a mother, you'd HAVE to rearrage your schedule to accomodate your child(ren).

I'm very "squirrel", whether it's the internet or what's happening in real time. I always found it easier to write away from home because home always demanded more of my attention. Getting away from home in order to write, though -- I'm still working on that.

[kathrynrose]

Hey, thanks for the plug. :)

For me, external deadlines make a huge difference. I can put things off for YEARS, but if I have a writing date with you or a submission deadline for Idol, then it's fingers-on-keyboard (at least mostly). :)

[caile]

Not to brag, but right now we're having freezing rain. I look forward to scraping a layer of ice off the car, which (bonus!) will likely be just like doing a complete upper body workout. Take that, tropics!

[sweeny_todd]

I love the energy of your posts.

I also have a mild internet addiction. SIGH. It is one of the things I want to deal with in the very near future.

[jem0000000]

No frosty windows or slushy roads, but the snowmen I hung at work for the January "seasonal decorations" category are rather lovely. :)

I do that, to some extent, with my sister -- 'she's in the shower, I have ten minutes, hurry up and load, computer!' (But sometimes it backfires, because if she notices I'm upstairs she'll call me more often.) It's not a huge deal to me because I've never had her for more than a month or so at a time, but I am most definitely more efficient when she's here than when she's not.

But yeah, it's largely a matter of saying, 'No, don't relax, do something,' combined with realizing how much you really can get done in ten or fifteen minutes.