Balancing Act: Life as a Working Writer

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Every day I write, in one fashion or another.

When I’m sitting at my desk and when I’m sitting inmy car. When I’m washing dishes, mowing the lawn, shopping for groceries or (forgive me, God) attendingchurch on Sunday.

Yetwhile I may be writing all the time — something I want to do, love to do, have to do — I am alsoengaged in a balancing act, walking a tightrope between writing for clients at one end and writing my fiction at the other.

I’d love to be able to devote a...