How I'm dealing with all this is, I look at the future and not the here and now. Writing is my passion. I know I have to set deadlines for myself, appointments for writing, and I have to discipline myself to get it done. When you have a passion for something like this, you’ll make the time to do it.

How easy or difficult is it to stick to these appointments?

I have good days, bad days and days when I sit down at my computer and the words won’t stop coming. Then, when I’m so tired I can barely keep my eyes open, I’ll take a recorder and pen and paper to bed because I have to jot down or record my ideas. I’ve lost many ideas because I couldn’t remember them, so I’ve learned my lesson. It may only be a line or two that comes into my head that I can go off of later.

Other times, it seems like my words are dry and stale and I couldn’t tell you the basic color of the sky. During the good days, I write as much as I can. During those stale times, I still write - I do a lot of reading, journaling, researching, watching movies, even coloring… anything to get my creativity juices flowing again. I also remember that this too shall pass.

Do you write everyday?

I hate to admit that recently, I haven’t written everyday but I make up for this during those times that I do write.

I used to write everyday for a couple of hours but sometimes life gets in the way of writing and I have to readjust my schedule. I try to write some in the morning before work and some in the evening.

What's been happening that's made it difficult for you to write?

As I mentioned before, I go through spells, but I usually resolve them because I won’t buckle under the stress and writing is my passion. There are weeks or even months in my job that are more stressful than others, such as trial weeks, grand jury weeks etc. that make it difficult to write.

Also, I work at a computer most of the day and sometimes the last thing I want to do is come home and sit down again at the computer.

When you do write, how do you approach each of these sessions?

I don’t have any type of tradition or ritual to precede my writing. I usually just sit down and begin where I left off, usually by reading what I wrote the day before. If I’m having a hard time, I’ll sit in silence with my eyes closed, breathing and thinking about my story, or about nothing.