![]() ![]() I treat writing like a job, spending a certain amount of time on marketing, revisions, and adding to my word count every day. I have a lot of guilt for taking time away from my family, because workshops, speaking engagements, book clubs, critique groups, and other writerly things usually happen in the evenings or weekends.īut again, trade off, and priorities. When I get desperate-especially during summer vacation, I institute a “unless there’s blood or a fire, don’t open my office door” policy. Sometimes, I run to the library for a few hours, or have a “write date” with other writer friends. I write at soccer practice, and at the pool. I wake up early to get words down before anyone wakes up. And big chunks of time are hard to come by, so I need to get creative. It takes big chunks of it, when you can block everything else out and delve deeply into your characters’ heads. Because I like all of those other things. ![]() I watch very little TV, and have to restrict my internet time.Īnd it’s hard. ![]() I don’t often wander around the mall, or the park, or go for a long hike or drive. ![]() I volunteer at my kids’ schools a very few times per year. We all have 24 hours in a day, and it’s a matter of prioritizing. Usually accompanied by a look of longing… as if I have something they don’t. Or say how lucky I am to have time to do what I want. And it’s not always asked in such a nice way-often people tell me they’d love to write, but they just don’t have time. Amelia Becket enjoys her life running her family plantation in Jamaica married by proxy to Lawrence Walter Drake, Earl of Lockwood, she’s not disappointed to be widowed before she can meet her husband. This is the question I get more than any other. Moore combines romance and danger on the high seas in her Regency debut. ![]()
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