A few signs that you might not be ready yet to return to your novel-in-progress after giving birth:
Coffee doesn't seem to have quite the same uplifting rise 'n shine sort of effect you remember.
You get weepy watching the lead change in the first quarter of an NBA playoff game.
Your reading life consists of Curley the Pig and Peter Cottontail. (While Beatrix Potter was a fine author, she does nothing to stoke your creative fire.)
Your conversational ability has diminished to gibberish - some of which rhymes, or at least seems to while spoken in a sing-songy tone.
Your alone time is limited to the bathroom...assuming you remember to lock the door.
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Melanie Haney is an emerging writer of short fiction.
Her story "The Simplest of Acts" was the winner of Family Circle Magazine's 2006 Fiction Competition.
In 2007 "Only in Bellington" was selected as winner of the Ann Arbor Book Festival's short story competition.
Her story "The Last Thing Before Dirt" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Family Circle Magazine, Quality Women's Fiction, Eureka Literary Magazine (The Elm), Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Summerset Review, elimae, Relief Journal, Blue Earth Review, JMWW, Word Riot and other venues.
"The Simplest of Acts" can be read here
You can email her here: Melanie@Lopnet.com
or follow her on Twitter
For more, click here.
Her story "The Simplest of Acts" was the winner of Family Circle Magazine's 2006 Fiction Competition.
In 2007 "Only in Bellington" was selected as winner of the Ann Arbor Book Festival's short story competition.
Her story "The Last Thing Before Dirt" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Family Circle Magazine, Quality Women's Fiction, Eureka Literary Magazine (The Elm), Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Summerset Review, elimae, Relief Journal, Blue Earth Review, JMWW, Word Riot and other venues.
"The Simplest of Acts" can be read here
You can email her here: Melanie@Lopnet.com
or follow her on Twitter
For more, click here.
1 comment:
doh! And I've heard-tell of women who wrote entire novels in the bathroom because it was the one place their children knew their mother could go and (A) they couldn't disturb her and (B) they didn't freak out because they knew she wouldn't be gone for long. ... although I suppose that works better when there's not an infant involved. :)
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