You Can’t Do It All

Looking for balance between the 9-to-5 and your writing career? Award-winningnovelist Raine Thomas offers tips that will help:

I wasn’t raised with the mentality of “You can do anything you want.” I was raised with the understanding that you start working in your teens and get a steady job as soon as possible, then work hard until you retire.

This may have inspired an admirable work ethic, but it didn’t guide me down a path that made me happy. Years of rising through the ranks in the corporate...