With my husband out of the country, a super busy, popular teenage daughter, an office that is now short one person, not to mention a demanding Yorkie, when do I find time to write? I’m currently in the process of writing the sequel to The Politics of Love, scheduled for release January 2007. It will be Taylor and Stone’s story with many of the same characters from the first. I like where I’m headed and believe the readers will fall in love with these two characters, but when, oh when can I find time to write?

I’m up in the morning at five and back home by six after an hour at the gym, a must for health reasons. Dinner and talking with my daughter, chasing the dog, a few telephone calls from family, it’s now approaching eight o’clock. I pull out the laptop to review what I have. Type a few lines from the scribbled notes that I managed during the day, then yawn with exhaustion and lose interest. I check my emails and read a few blogs. I type a few pages more before calling it a night. Now the weekends seem like the ideal time to write, but wait, there’s laundry, grocery shopping, hair appointments, errands to run, drop my daughter at her friend’s house, clean while she’s out of the house, more phone calls from family and friends. Oh, yeah, then write a page or two, before going to pick the kid up.

Well things are about to change as we approach a new year. She’ll be getting her license and her father’s car. There will be Me Time established that will carry repercussions for violating. I will take myself and my writing more seriously and see new works created in the coming year. But as for right now, I’ve got to run take care of one of those things that get in the way of my writing.