A Letter to Writers who are Parents
Can you successfully write while also being a parent? NaNo Participant
Desiree S. Brown confidentially says yes, you can do both. Desiree offers heartfelt words of inspiration to other author-parents out there.
My
eyes were heavy with sleep as I plodded over to my son’s crib. I
remember holding him in a state of awe, but I was also terrified. I
hadn’t written in months—not from lack of trying—and had just emerged
from a digital rabbit hole.
Desperate for pointers from seasoned author-parents, I asked Google, “How do authors write while raising kids?”
I expected encouragement, but found Lauren Sandler’s essay The Secret to Being Both a Successful Writer and Mother: Have Just One Kid and Cyril Connolly’s famous quote: “There’s no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”
You can write and be a parent.
What a sad world it would be if we forced all parents to give up writing. How much we’d miss out on. (Or forced all writers who dreamed of being parents to deny that empathy and love for the next generation.)
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