

Once you do this more, you'll find yourself doing more with the same amount of time. When not writing, I'm thinking of what to write on my next session. I write using a detailed outline, so it's easy for me to pick up where I left off. The key is finding time every day, even less than an hour, and keeping at it.

Now that she's on her summer vacation.I have to figure out when to write again. I wrote Rules We Like Breaking, 2/3 of Someone Else's Fantasy, and short story No Roses for Hannah (all yet to be released) in that time. When my daughter started going to school a few months ago, I could rely on having two hours every weekday to write. That gave me about four to six hours a week, in total, to write those books. When I was a new mom, and was also writing Queen of the Clueless and Icon of the Indecisive, I had an arrangement with an aunt that she would watch my daughter twice a week. I wrote most of that book during that time. When I was writing No Strings Attached I wasn't a mom yet, but I was working, and had thirty minutes at the end of every workday. What I do instead is find out when I will have time to write, and maximize it. Because when really will the responsibilities stop?Īnd if you never start, then that's too bad. If you want to write, but think that the only time you can start is when you are free from your other responsibilities, then it might never happen. I won't even list them down because that's just the reality of today - we all have other places we should be, things we should be doing. There are other things we could be doing.
