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Here are some strategies to balance children and writing.
Office Where Everybody Can See You
Put your office where everybody can see it. It should be in your living room or wherever the social gathering is. Even put it in your rec room. No problem. Children can be trained to stay away from the computer. What they cannot do is supervise themselves while your off in your office somewhere.
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Plotting Your Time
If you're used to plotting novels, time to try it with your own life. Get your children into the habit that they get the whole morning of your time but you get the afternoon and they are required to find their own trouble to get into during your time. So if you take them out to a playgroup and they have fun all morning or out on long walks, then in the afternoon whether or not they still take naps, you should be at the helm of your writing career and getting the job done. Set a time limit. Usually a three hour jag of writing should do [url=http://www.par5club.com/louboutin.php]louboutin[/url] for an afternoon.
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Explaining
Sometimes with us writers, we don't stick up for ourselves which is hilarious considering no decent character or ours would get pushed around.
Explain to your spouse, significant other that you do need time to do this. It's not just work, it's important to you.
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What You Could Do
Get up with the birds and write a little extra here and there, pushing your three hour minimum to a five hour minimum.
Some great writers like Mary Higgins Clarke started this way.
What about Visitors
Same as your spouse. Stand up for yourself. Explain that in the morning when it's the kids time they can come over and not in the afternoon when you should be hard at work.
Divide the time that you spend with friends, spouse and children and cleave off a good amount a day for your writing.
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