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Oh The Sickness

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[bt_bb_section layout="boxed_1200" lazy_load="yes" show_video_on_mobile=""][bt_bb_row][bt_bb_column lazy_load="yes" width="1/1"][bt_bb_text] Every author wants to write all day, all the time. But life has this horrible way of getting in the way. Three months ago I sat down with the third draft of a book about a secret service agent, a kidnapped Empress and some devious plot devices. I had time while my oldest kid was at daycare and my youngest was running around my feet bringing me plastic objects for me to admire. I got really into it. I was writing, and editing, and changing whole chapters and even the names of characters because...

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Where is the Tin Opener?

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What a Wednesday. My partner-in-crime is out, and I think I'm ready for the evening crazies that start at 4pm, despite my 6 broken hours of sleep the night before. I set out the prep for my dinner and put #1 kid's food in the microwave. Then I try to find the tin opener and it has vanished. I remember that she's taken to thinking it's a hairbrush and pinches it out of the drawer, so she's taken it, or I've confiscated it and put it somewhere "safe". A cursory search yields only frustration for me. Then #1 yells for...

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Finding time to write

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Sometimes I know what a book is going to do before I start. Sometimes I just start a book hoping it will write itself, and often it does. The book I'm on at the moment I have always vaguely known where it was going, it's just trying to get the characters there seems to be a hard one. This one grew organically. I started with a specific image in my mind and wrote that down. The characters came easily, and the first part of the story grew without me really trying. Then I got to a point where I figured...

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