Finding the Time

It's one of those things us writers always have to battle against: time. It applies more to those authors who, like me, haven't yet made the big time and still need an "everyday job" in order to pay the bills and put food on the table.

It's hard enough to work a full day, then come home and help with the household chores, and then spend the quality time one must spend with their children (and this last "chore" is certainly not a chore at all but a blessing). Still, time has to be found for such activities.

But writing is in my blood, it's what I love doing and for 5 days out of the week it's what I have to do. But it's not easy fitting everything in.

I'm writing a new novel. I've been re-editing and re-formatting a previously published novella getting it ready for re-release in a different medium. I'm going through proof reads on the final galley for my new novel due out in just over a month. I'll have to start rewrites on a novel that has been rejected for perhaps the 5th time (and I won't give up on it -- I like the story too damn much). Oh yeah, and there's a few short story markets I wouldn't mind attaching my name to, markets that will require new, original material.

My biggest problem, as is always the case, is not writing the stories or editing the prose, but it's finding the time.

Anybody else have this problem?