“Pencil art” by Nalini Prasanna is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
My ideal writing conditions consist of a good cup of coffee or tea and white noise. I do like spending time in a coffee shop surrounded by people, curious as to what they’re working on.
But if I wait for my ideal writing conditions, they may never happen. E.B. White said, “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”
I keep telling myself, “If I had time, then I’d write.” But I’m never going to have time. In all honesty, my season of life is very busy: I have a four-year-old and a nine-month-old baby, and I am still nursing said baby. So I only think in 3-4 hour increments during the day, and I feel like I’m always running around with my head cut off, forgetting items for the kids at school or activities they have to go to.
I’m hoping that even just a little bit of writing per day will satisfy my expectations for writing.
With that said, here’s to writing under less-than-ideal conditions. Cheers!