The writer-parent life can feel like trying to do ballet on a broken ankle in a bog.
We must marshal creativity, time, and funds like any other writer, all while feeding hungry mouths, cleaning up bodily goo, and pretending to be a tree. Or a squirrel. Or Maleficent.
But if we’re not going to quit writing—and since the hope and prayer is we’re parents for life—what other choice is there but to try our best to do both?
Read on for inspiration and tips on how we can survive (and thrive!) as writer-parents.
Writer-Parent Spotlight: JT “Jody” Morse
Here’s the second installment of the Writer-Parent Spotlight interview series, featuring JT “Jody” Morse, a multigenre writer-parent who lives and writes with palpable passion.
Writer-Parent Spotlight: Georgia Pearle Foster + Joshua Dewain Foster
Readers, I’m smack-dab giddy to introduce the new Writer-Parent Spotlight interview series, in which writer-parents I admire answer some (hopefully) fun and thought-provoking questions about their lives as writer-parents.
For the first installment, I interviewed not one but two fantastic writer-parents: Joshua Dewain Foster and Georgia Pearle Foster.