Postscript to Two-Pages
I’m afraid in my fatigue fog of last night I may have made my two-page goal sound somewhat easier to achieve than it actually is. The good thing about two pages is ….
Please, excuse me while I go up and comfort Guppy for the–wait, wait, he’s stopped crying.
I just finished my two pages. They were first-draft ugly, and probably would be considerably shorter if I applied any editorial effort at all. If they come across as disjointed, it’s likely due to the three or more times I ran up two flights of stairs from our basement (current writing haven) to Guppy’s bassinet to re-insert his Nuk and pat his tummy to get him back to his nap.
Yesterday was even more of a challenge. Drake woke screaming, so loud and so long that he eventually woke Guppy down the hall, who added his voice to Drake’s. I tried to calm Guppy and learn what it was that had upset Drake. Over the course of 45 minutes, I administed some Motrin, nursed the baby, held both boys on my lap to read books, and convinced Drake to get back in bed to finish his nap. Neither boy was able to go back to sleep, but they were able to stay quiet for a total of about fifteen minutes within thirty so that I could finish my two pages.
The good thing about writing two pages is that they’re short enough to withstand numerous interruptions, and can likely be completed even if one or both boys has trouble during naptime.