Free write
27Dec2005 Filed under: Writing Author: DawnMadison is sleeping past an hour (usually her naps are about an hour) probably because of her cold still hanging on.
I just did a 15 minute freewrite with the timer that Marjorie sent me. It’s the first time I made myself freewrite for a block of time instead of freewriting until I ran out of things to say. I ran out of things to say four times but the timer hadn’t gone off so I started again.
It was awful. But it was good.
The awful part is that I’m working on something that’s just kinda painful and so every time I stopped it wasn’t because I had nothing else to say like I thought; it was because I didn’t want to have to say it. This is good raw material except that I never want to have to look at it again.
Ergh.
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I have two kids and a delightfully odd husband, Brett. My children are Noah (born to us in 1997) and Madison (born to her first mom, Pennie, in 2004 and brought to our family through a domestic, open adoption). They are my inspiration and also the reason I don't get more done around here.
I'm a writer and sometimes I get published, which is a nice thing. I write for joy, I write for money and when I'm very lucky, both things happen at the same time. My work appears in national publications including Yoga Journal, Disney's Family.com, Utne, Wondertime, Brain Child and Salon. Currently I am working on a book about my daughter's adoption and seeking representation for the proposal. I also own Smart Cookie Communications with my husband.
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