Reunited...And It Feels So Good

Yesterday I did something I haven't done in some time--I sat and wrote! The last time I did a blog entry was April, and I think the last time I worked on my book was March, when I was also dealing with a wrist splint. The time gap this time, I'm happy to say, wasn't purely due to simple procrastination or even (not-so-simple) writer's block. Nope, this delay in large part can be attributed to the fact that I am, as they say, in the family way! Being pregnant in itself can be somewhat distracting (I've been reading waaaay too much about pregnancy on the internet as well as researching baby products), but I am only now coming out from under the cloud of morning sickness. There were some days during the past two months that I could barely move from the couch, where I lay curled up and nauseous, and was hardly thinking about writing, let alone actually doing it. Now, although I'm not entirely nausea-free, I'm feeling much better than I had been, and have recently been anxious to get back to my writing.

I'd bought a laptop prior to my trip back East about 2 1/2 months ago, hoping that during my trip I'd be so inclined to work on my story. Nope. Another reason I'd bought it was because Mr. GJ had been working at home a lot, and loud action movies on the TV in the living room were not conducive to my writing in the office (doors only helped so much--the living room and office share a wall), so the thought was that I'd be able to take a laptop anywhere I wanted to outside of the house. Then Mr. GJ wasn't working at home so often, and I wasn't much up to writing, anyway, so yesterday was the first time since I got the laptop that I was able to use it for the situation I'd bought it for. We're fortunate to have a room connected to our garage in the backyard, which we've set up as a sort of music room, complete with piano and futon, so I went out there, armed with some instrumental music (Aaron Copland and Tal Farlow, in case anyone's wondering), a big glass of water and my laptop, and aside from a couple of brief internet interruptions (for better or worse, we have internet access out there), I was able to revise/flesh out the chapter I'd most recently written, for a total of almost four new pages, almost doubling the previous length of that chapter.

Important things that came out of yesterday: I was happy with what I wrote (though we'll see if I feel the same way after my critique group reads it...), I realized once again how much I enjoy writing, I also realized that I'd missed my characters, and the whole laptop situation worked out beautifully (especially after I came inside at one point to be audibly accosted by some very loud metal music from the soundtrack of the project Mr. GJ was working on). For the first time in several months, I can say with much enthusiasm that I can't wait to get to my next chapter!