Work or Fun? #MFRWAuthor

Each Friday a group of authors write a post. Many of the prompts in the 52 weeks-52 posts challenge dare the participating authors to reveal something personal about themselves. This week's topic is "When I'm Not Writing, I..."

OK, first off, I thought the post was written only to find out at the last minutes that it wasn't. My first thought was the ways I pass what little leisure time i have. But that was covered just a few weeks ago in Creative Without Paper and a similar topic in last year's challenge.



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In accordance with the writing theme, there are blog posts to do such as for this challenge and the weekly BookHook or monthly RT Day. A portion of each day is dedicated to requesting reviews (email me if you're interested in reviewing any of the books in the page banner), sharing my posts as well as those of others on social media, keeping up with the activities of or supporting the other authors in my groups or my publisher. And let's not forget edits, tracking sales, creating promotional plans and material, and learning something new of the craft.

But to be honest the bulk of my wake time is not dedicated to fun. There is housework, cooking, laundry and laundry, and then starting over. In an earlier post a popular thing many of the participants said they'd love to do away with was doing dishes.

Supporting family is also a major activity when not writing. Sometimes the two activities are done at the same time. Supporting, helping, backing up can be as simple as sorting through and printing out their emails for them to read or making a dish for a pot luck dinner at one of their groups. There might be some fun mixed in when taking a turn as an alternate babysitter. There is the teaching to get a great-grandson ready for school or playing with all the great-grandchildren.

Then there is the  myriad of things that come with being a caregiver from vitals and medication management, weekly trips to the gym, or emergency doctor visits.

When all is said in done, in most ways it isn't that unusual a life. But the alarm is going off so it's time to start at the more work-like aspects of my life. And if I'm really, really lucky, sneaking in reading a few pages.

Leave a comment if you will. And be sure to check out the posts of the other authors who have challenged themselves to reveal their inner selves and their writing lives.

~till next time, Helen