I’ve been thinking a lot about Rachel Gardner’s blog post yesterday. She refers to writing as “a lifestyle,” and it’s hard to achieve this with so many other daily demands around us. While I agree with her that a writer pursuing publication can’t be flippant about the craft, I have to admit that I have a difficult time balancing writing, reading (books and blogs), editing, critiquing, meeting, and blogging. Oh, and don’t forget that just slightly time-consuming thing called submission. Yet, all of these are necessary pieces to the publishing puzzle. I suppose it’s a personal choice, as Gardner discusses, where you must sacrifice something if you want to cross that line from writing as a hobby to writer.

I’m curious, what’s your secret to getting in consistent, uninterrupted writing time? How do you juggle your life’s demands with all of the many components on the path to publication? And, is this all a matter of semantics? Do you consider yourself a writer, regardless of what your other daily requirements may be?

Happy Pondering!
Marissa