Brain Toggle

I am in the midst of selling my house and buying another one. I am also in the midst of writing a novel, on deadline, for a publisher. What that meant today is that I had to toggle back and forth all day long between intense talks with a mortgage broker and real estate agent and chapter sixteen, in which my main character's middle school world begins to seriously fall apart. It's hard enough to write when I have the whole day devoted to my work, with nothing to distract me, just my own imagination. But when I have to mentally multi-task, it's almost impossible. Almost. Today I learned a valuable lesson. If I really have to write, and be creative, and funny, and all the things one has to be to create a piece of good writing, I can do it. So, that leaves me with no excuse for all the times I feel I can't write, because the light's not quite right, or I'm hungry, or tired, or...you fill in the blank. Sometimes it feels good to be tested.