100% focused on the family when you have a story running through your head and you are trying to figure out what’s going to happen next when you sit down at the keyboard the next morning! also, my family thinks it’s funny that almost everywhere we go, i am saying, “there’s a book idea…there’s a character for a book…that’s going in the book.” they are often amused.
i totally agree it is a struggle to balance family and writing and a job. when did you first begin writing, and why do you write still?
i started writing at bowling green state university…for the college magazine (black swamp) and bits and pieces for 