@Amy Hall awww! Thank you! 🥹

ME TOO

@Eric Anderson I definitely had to figure out what worked mostly ok most of the time. When my kids were tiny, I had to wait until bed time and Eric had to be on “aren’t duty” on the nights that I wrote. Setting a schedule with your team (kids, spouses, etc.) is the easiest way to do it. For the first few years, I wrote 8-11pm Mon/Wed/Fri and wrote four books that way. Now that I’m published and my kids are bigger, that schedule has changed, but I still have a schedule and still involve my family in all of it. My system works for me and it might work for others, but the most important thing is figuring out how it works for your family and sticking to it. There will always be hard times, but making it a team effort makes it so much easier.

Usually when I hit this stage where I'm feeling like I can't see how I can change things or I'm "blind" to the story, I ask someone else to read it. 🤣 Having another set of trustworthy eyes on it to tell you where you could ax things and where stuff is really working can really help. It always helps me to get a bit more of a roadmap for my edits. Let someone else do the "ax murdering". 😉