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You are here: Home / family / Balancing Being a Mother and a Writer

November 6, 2012 by Tricia Goyer 2 Comments

Balancing Being a Mother and a Writer

This is from my awesome friend Robin Lee Hatcher. Robin’s daughters are around my kids’ ages, so that gives you some perspective. (My additional thoughts below.)

Tricia, I was a single mom of pre-teen daughters and had a full-time 8-5 job when I started writing my first book. By the time I’d sold my first and second novels, I developed a schedule and kept to it most of the time. Monday through Thursday, I came home from work, fixed and ate dinner with my daughters. By 7:00, I was at my computer and I wrote until 9:00. I also wrote on Saturday mornings when the girls slept in. Friday evenings, Saturday afternoons, and all day Sundays were family time. Also, I had an “open door” policy. The girls could interrupt me anytime they needed to. They were my top priority, not the writing. I wrote and had nine books published over a nine year period before I quit my job to write full time. By then, both of my daughters were grown and on their own.


My main tip is this: Write something every day. If you write just one page per day, you will have a 365 page novel at the end of a year.

Robin Lee Hatcher
(hard at work on book #69)


Read my thoughts on this over at the Allume blog!

Filed Under: family, it's real life, women, Words


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  1. Linda says

    November 6, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    Interesting! I enjoy Robin’s books! Thanks!

    Reply
  2. Tricia Goyer says

    November 6, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    I do, too! Robin is great! It reminds me how all of us have to balance motherhood and writing. (Well, those of us who are moms.)

    Reply

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