Why is it when you work at home everyone thinks you don’t actually work!?
I love my real life non-writer friends. Really. They’ve been especially awesome the last few weeks. But I am seriously behind. So behind that I’m torturing myself with a fast draft. Two hundred forty pages in 14 days. So why is it, even after I told everyone, hey I won’t be around because I’m way behind schedule, I still get 15 phone calls a day? They expect me to drop everything and go to lunch or go to the store or whatever. (Now if someone was saying let’s go to the beach, I’d be all over it. Man, I need to go to the beach. I’ve promised myself that reward when I finished this FD. 
) And Army Guy is driving me crazy too. He’s very supportive of my writing. When it doesn’t interfere with his time. When he’s home he just expects me to drop everything and if I say I need to write, he’s all for it. He’ll say, okay go write. But then he follows me. And he talks. I love the man dearly but it’s damned hard to write when someone is sitting next to you running their mouth.
Anyone else have this problem? Or does everyone else have this problem lol? That’s probably closer to the truth lol. 
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I think sometimes my husband sees ’sitting at the computer’ as lazy. Even though he knows I write. I will admit, I am not someone who just sits 8 hours a day at her computer and writes a book the whole time. But the majority of the time I spend on the computer, I am either researching, promoting, updating my website, or writing! Not like I’m on Youtube for 4 hours a day.
The worst thing is when someone interrupts my concentration when I’m deep into a book. It’s so hard to get that magic back sometimes.
I feel your pain, Loribelle!