Writer Mama Riffs on Raising A Writing Career Alongside Your Kids

“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”

Your sense of humor is a great gift, writer mama.  Rely on it in times of stress.  Remember it when your patience is thin. Use it to your advantage.

Receive a rejection letter with spelling errors?  An editor nit-picking over comma splices?  Choose to laugh instead of seethe. Your son cuts his hair into a mohawk?  Your daughter colors the kitchen table with magic markers?  See the funny story there.  Then write it!

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Megan Pincus Kajitani is a California-based writer mama and recovering overachiever who blogs at Having Enough (In a “Have-It-All” World).

“When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
~ Helen Keller

Rejection is part of every writer’s life, and every mother’s. Editors nix countless manuscripts. Children ignore sage advice. This is part of the process. Use it. To get stronger. Then let it go. And notice, instead, the hour of free-flowing prose. Your child’s sudden hug. Shift your attention to the open doors and your life will feel full of acceptance and opportunity.
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Megan Pincus Kajitani is a California-based writer mama and recovering overachiever who blogs at Having Enough (In a “Have-It-All” World).

By Megan Pincus Kajitani

“Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!”

Writer mama, you are a time magician. You create extra hours in a 24-hour-day. Find moments hidden in dusty corners, under bright red playground slides. Craft leads as you sauté onions and pass out crayons. Edit sentences in your three-minute showers.

You know time is what you make of it, and there is no perfect time. You deserve any moment you can get–just for you–so seize it.
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Megan Pincus Kajitani is a California-based writer mama and recovering overachiever who blogs at Having Enough (In a “Have-It-All” World).

By Megan Pincus Kajitani

“Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true!”

Writer mama, you needn’t be anything but who you are. Embrace your life’s stories, your regrets, your evolving dreams. Honor your messy kitchen, your card-table office, your high-school poems, your food-stained yoga pants. Write from what you know, see and imagine. No more education, time or possessions are needed. No one else is better or worse. So just do it. Be a mother. Be a writer. Be you, and that is enough.
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Megan Pincus Kajitani is a California-based writer mama and recovering overachiever who blogs at Having Enough (In a “Have-It-All” World).