Writing Time

(This post originally appeared in full on my LinkedIn 9/5/2025)

Finding time to write every day is brutal.

When I was first writing More Today Than Yesterday, I fit writing in around what I was doing for work and family, but when I decided to get serious about it, I started getting up at 5 and wrote until 7:30 or so. This gave me 2 solid hours in the morning with no distractions.

It’s important to remember that it was the strange, early months of the pandemic. I was writing on my ancient MacBook at the kitchen table, wondering how it would all end, pouring every emotion I had into Ruthie like my life depended on it.

About 10000 words from the end my computer shit the bed. It was a catastrophic failure, the battery had swollen to the point where it warped the case and the keyboard wouldn’t work.

I took it to the Apple Store (our first trip to a mall after lockdown, masked and distanced, truly dystopian) and it had to be sent away for repair.

I had built up so much momentum I just had to finish the book, so I bought a tripod and a Bluetooth keyboard and finished the novel on my phone.

These days I’m back struggling to find a block of time where I can focus on the story in that way.

My kids get up way earlier (thanks, 6:41 bus time) and my brain is rotten by 9 p.m.

I also write for a living (not complaining, it’s the absolute best thing that could have happened to me) which uses up a lot of that creative juice.

All this to say, I’m probably going to start getting up at 4 a.m. to write. I know it’s what I need to do. IT’S JUST SO EARLY.