Just cause...

It seems like only yesterday A and I started writing together. Then again it seems like forever since we have had the time to write.  A spoke about time and where do we find it and at least once a day that is a question that runs through my mind as well.

It's been five years since A and I finished our first book together and even though we did get a request for the full it never found an agent to give it a home. Many characters and their stories have taken up our time since then but we have found ourselves back at the beginning, back in the world that is familiar territory. Now if we can just find the time..... Jenn

Lost time

It's been a very long time since I've been here, and time is kind of the essence of the problem, and the essence of this post.

Where do writers find time to sate that creative need when it doesn't-- as it most often doesn't-- pay the bills?

Yesterday, J. said to me "We need to figure out how to blog more."

I marveled at that, because it seems so simple, and yet, I said to her "Well. We find time to blog. But we haven't found time to write, so what do we blog about?"

There is time, though, in bits and snippets.  J and I face a unique problem to cowriters in that finding time together (even virtually) is a real issue.  But I find time over lunch breaks to throw out quick character studies, to write off-stage scenes that I need to have a grasp on to inform the characters' other actions.  To scratch the itch, mostly.  A selfish motive, not really a practical one, though it has its uses.

So we find time where we can, carefully craft it in like sewing pockets onto a garment.  You may not change the shape of the garment that much, but now there's extra space and extra storage and a hidden compartment, so to speak.

And so that's how we find time. 

Pockets, here and there.  I never was very good at sewing, but this, I think I can manage. 

- A