Today is a great day to write.
I’m a teacher by trade, and also an independent novelist, but sometimes my job makes me so tired that I have days where I don’t have time (or am too tired from the job) to crank out any words. However, this weekend is a Godsend. School has been cancelled for Thursday and Friday, and it looks like the ice under this four inches of snow (so far) will keep us locked in the house for a few days more.
My kids have plenty to do, with Axis and Allies, Risk 2210, Heroscape, and later I’ll take them on a journey through the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. Out come the books and they go to making characters for their adventure. Meanwhile I have plenty of time to crack open my latest novel Come Apart, and get busy editing it since I have purposefully not looked at it in over a week.
I should be able to get a great chunk of it edited this weekend between the movie marathons and the fun times with my children. I have my bedroom where I can retire to work with the door shut for a few hours per day, and it should work out fine.
It is a difficult thing balancing work and a writing career (which is a full time job in itself). What types of coping mechanisms do you have, oh reader? How do you balance a full time job and a family and a writing obsession? Post below, because I don’t have all the answers.
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Writing Is Hard Work 
It’s the challenge for 95% of writers, isn’t it? I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I have to stare at a computer monitor all day, which severely limits my motivation when I get home for doing more of the same (explaining why my twice-weekly blog posts are more often twice monthly). I just wait for that drive to hit me, which it eventually does, and take out the laptop on the weekend. Probably why I havent finished anything of merit for two years.