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Carrie Jones
Oct 06, 2022
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Because I’ve started a local news blog (I used to be a newspaper editor and reporter) and I make most of my income currently editing other people and being a writing coach, I have put myself in a place called HOLY SWEAR WORD, WHEN DO I HAVE TIME TO WRITE?

Yes, I bet you know that place, too, right?

I was in this same place when I was a newspaper editor and quit everything to get an MFA in writing and really devoted myself to writing children books and now I’m back again.

Lives are full of complications and work, and we are all busy. And sometimes we may go down the wormholes of social media. And most writers? Most of us have day jobs so we have to squeeze the writing time in. Then there’s writer’s block to contend with, right?

But there are ways to find the time.

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