Writing a book can be hard. It can be frustrating, it takes time, you need to be able to think. None of these things are easy when you’ve got two young kids around. In fact, some English writer – I can’t remember who – said something along the lines of, if there’s a pram in the hallway no writer lives here.
Anyhow, as most of you know, I’m attempting to write the great thriller at the moment and I know how difficult it is just to get some spare time to write, let alone some spare time that’s quiet.
But, you know, perhaps that’s part of the deal. Perhaps your best work is produced when you’re up against it. JK Rowling as we all know (Merve, she’s a writer, Harry Potter? Oh, never mind) wrote her first HP as a struggling single mother, and there are loads of others who didn’t find hours of luxurious time to pen that next world-moving novel.
So, I was pleased to see a story on one of the email newsletters I get from the UK, about an American woman who juggled three young kids while writing a book which she’s now found a publisher for. I could see her struggling, see her tired and dejected, worn out, hardly able to keep her eyes open, but still working with a passion that burned. She wrote every spare moment, even in the back of her car while she waited to pick the kids up from school.
Not unnaturally I had this picture of a woman rising to greatness while under immense personal and financial pressure.
Then I went to her website. Here’s the link. This is the house she lives in. The one she already had before she started her book. I think you can see the nanny in one of thse rooms, handling three fractious kids, the ‘sitter’ as she puts it. Oh my, it made me laugh. No really.
Yes, writing a book it is a struggle, but for some there’s maybe a bit more struggle than for others...
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Not exactly a romantic garret is it? Where do you write? I often think the only reason the great oeuvre has not yet emanated from these fingers is the absence of a garden shed, but that may just be an excuse.. Good luck with your book.
 | TheBozzer [Member] 30/01/08 @ 02:25 |
Yes, ideally you need a garden shed. I've got a study but keeping the kids out is harder than being at the Alamo.
01/02/08 @ 09:50
Some writers say writing a book is like having a baby. It's all pain, angst and suffering to make a wonderful, inviting novel. For the American writer you mentioned, it might be like using a surrogate.
I think it would be very difficult to write, plot, plan with the pitterpatter of two and four yr old feet banging about the house. Kudos to you! By the time you get used to it, they will teenagers and you will wish they were home where you could keep an eye on them.
Kym
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