Alexa Orr asked Teresa R. Funke:

Do you write every day?

Teresa R. Funke No, and I make no apologies for that. Many new writers are so intimidated by the ridiculous pressures we put on them. One of those is an old adage that "real" writers write every day. Some do, but just as many don't. To me, writing every day is no different than doing any other job every day. It becomes an obsession. I think writers need to be out in the world living and playing and experiencing in order to understand what it is they need to write. And sometimes an idea or even just a line needs some space in which to develop. But we writers are never far from our work. Even when we are not at our keyboards we are thinking about our stories, talking about them, dreaming about them. In that sense, we ARE working every day.

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