As far as my writing schedule with little ones, I think the main thing I’ve learned is to be flexible, which can be hard for writers. We get so consumed with our stories, we don’t want to stop until the scenes finished, but life with kids doesn’t work that way, especially with toddlers. Neglect them for a minute and they’ll find the paint and splatter it on the walls.

So, sometimes I write in the morning, other times at night, but most things get done on the weekends when my co-parent is around to help. It won’t be forever. I think next year I’ll get the 2-3 hours I need each day.

One piece of advice that was given to me: write now, not later – meaning we think we’ll have more time to write when the kids get older, but newborns nap a lot, so there’s easily three hours a day to write. Once they start dropping naps and multiple kids are added to the mix, it gets more difficult to find pockets of focused time. The other piece of advice I’ve accepted: we make time for what’s important to us.

Can you tell I’m still working through all this…