When you only have twenty minutes, you write - whether it’s garbage, or it’s good… you just DO it, and you fix it later. I write quickly, but I also do not believe in writer’s block, because once I didn’t have the luxury of believing it. But for many years, I had to squeeze in my work around child care schedules, and that made me develop a very firm discipline. My husband’s choice to stay home was an amazing gift to me - a freedom and ability to write whenever I liked. so that I could go on tour for months at a time without batting an eye or work through school pickup at 2:45 PM without breaking stride or hie off on a research expedition without thinking twice. He carpooled, drove to and from school, attended skating practice, etc. After I wrote about eight books my husband became a stay-at-home dad.
It also meant that I was continually interrupted. When they were growing up, my kids knew that they came first with me - which meant I would schedule tours, when possible, around school plays and softball games and ballroom competitions. I used to be much more impressive, since I wrote the majority of my books while I was raising my three kids. You're 55 years old, and you have three kids and 25+ books - I can barely manage to get my grocery shopping done! You must have an incredible writing regimen!
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