Good advice for writers and creatives of all kinds, courtesy of Rita Karnopp’s and Ginger Simpson’s fine blog:
by Rita Karnopp
When we hear the word ‘balance’ then add writing and life, an author could almost laugh. It’s a bit of a facetious statement.
When I started writing my children were very young, five and three. So I scheduled my writing time after they went to bed around nine and wrote until two or three in the morning. But, that’s not to say I never wrote during the day – because I did. My office space was in our front living room (because we never used it, we always used the huge family room to the back of the house facing the mountains) and my desk faced the hallway toward the bedrooms. The kids, and their friends, came in and out of that front door – past me – how many times a day?
