Chelsea Laine Wells
How I Balance Writing Against My Busy Life
The fact that I remembered agreeing to write this essay a sheer week before the deadline with a bolt of panic like the one that comes when you wake up to broad daylight and realize you’ve overslept would perhaps begin to address the topic: how I balance writing with my busy daily life. The short answer is, I don’t. The long answer is, in and among my full time job, grad school through distance learning (sounds easier than in-person college, right? It so isn’t.), taking care of the house, taking care of the cats, most recently planning my wedding, moving into a smaller place so we can save for a house, and last but definitely not least, finding out a week before my wedding that we succeeded in getting me pregnant with our first child – writing, which is in fact the neglected but truest and longest love of my life, takes a backseat. More than a backseat. Lies in the trunk bound and gagged and barely clinging to life. (more…)