Time-creating tip: the “Morning Light”

I started writing a novel last year. Of course, with two young kids and a day job writing nonfiction, I had no time. If I was going to get up extra early to write, that precious ‘starlighting’ time in the morning had to be sacred, so I put my children’s sleeping hours on a timer.
Creative Deadlines

I woke up with a dent in my forehead. It comes from dressing up as the Headless Horseman for Halloween last night. Turns out it’s tricky to make your head disappear, ride a cardboard horse, and balance a 10-lb. pumpkin in one hand while chaperoning children along the dark streets