…Well, I’m about 12 hours late on Oestara, actually, but I don’t post on weekends, so we’ll have to live with it. I’m just glad it’s finally spring (even if it doesn’t precisely feel like it right now: the 50-degree weather we had this weekend has become 35-degree weather and the promise of more snow — but oh well). As it’s not anywhere near planting season and I was never much for egg-decorating, I plan to celebrate by a) getting back into a gym routine, b) getting back into a serious writing routine, and c) planning out the (modest) vegetable and flower gardens we’re hoping to not kill this year. 
Also, maybe I’ll get a helmet, because I got one of these last week, 
and apparently riding a bike is, in fact, like riding a bike.
Which is to say I haven’t broken any bones, lost any skin, or given myself a concussion yet. Keep your fingers crossed.
And then there’s this:
How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
All the time, and, um, all the time.
Really, I think that’s just part of being a writer, isn’t it? Or maybe I’m romanticizing the craft, I don’t know — but when I’m not writing, I’m generally planning on writing, wishing I had time to write, being knocked over by some amazing idea/image/ combination of words that just popped into my head that must be written down immediately, trying to remember what it was I thought of that I should have written down, reminding myself to write that thought down when I get home, or feeling guilty for not doing one of the above.
There are moments — possibly whole hours– when I do other things and concentrate wholly on them, of course: but generally somewhere in the middle of such moments I think of some phrase, character motivation, plot point or whatever-else that belongs in some project or other, and I think I have to write that down. I think that at various points throughout a day. If I actually managed to write something down every time I thought it, I’d probably have five novels finished instead of three.
So, well, I guess I need to work on doing that.
Happy Ostara! Ugh, it just doesn’t feel like spring today, though.
Sounds like I’m a lot like you. Writing/ideas don’t interrupt my other thoughts; other thoughts interrupt my writing/ideas….
Sorry that I don’t know what Oestra but happy day to you all. And congrats on finishing the meme.
But I guess the answer is a given. If you’re not thinking about writing, then you are not a writer, savvy?
I’ll cross my fingers, or press my thumbs as people do here, that you don’t break anything.
Regarding the meme question, I don’t think writers are ever off duty, so to speak.
Does feeling guilty about not writing count? Because that’s pretty consistent! Except when I’m..yanno…writing.
I just got a bicycle, too!! And I like to always refer to it as a “bicycle” and I like to use “bicycle” as the verb. It’s fancier.