How do you write with little kids around?

1. Treat your writing as a job and other people will follow your lead.
2. Hire child care. It's a business expense.
3. Wake up early/stay up late.
4. Learn to write amidst chaos, at the kitchen table, managing your family.
5. It's good for your children to sometimes be told, "Mommy/Daddy is working now."
6. Set boundaries, sometimes literally with a closed door in your office.
7. Become a nap Nazi. (It doesn't matter if your kids actually sleep).
8. Get your spouse to trade off with you.
9. Buy/pay for services you don't have time to do (cooking, cleaning, car pooling, etc.)
10. Accept imperfection in trying to find a balance.

And one last thing I said was that there are times in your life (not many, but still some) when you may truly not be able to get in any writing. If this is the case for you, don't make yourself feel bad about it. Plan for a future where you will have time to write. (I call this Life Block.)