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Balancing Life and Writing
by Brian PaoneI’ve published four novels, and my typical day during the writing of each book was totally different from each other.
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So, a typical day would be: get everything done first for the move, switching jobs, the recording studio, and whatever time was left at night: work on the book. We also didn’t have any kids yet.
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My day would be: get the kids to daycare, go work fighting crime for 8 hours, pick the kids up and do whatever household chores I had to do (laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping etc.), feed the kids dinner and put them to bed around 6:30, then I would work out for an hour, and then I would work on Welcome to Parkview after I showered until whenever I passed out at my laptop.
Yours Truly. 2095 [2015; a time-travel romance novel], the Navy had sent us to Japan for the next 4 years. I had to take a leave of absence at the police department, and we moved the family there. I did not get a job right away, as my wife wanted me to be the stay at home parent during our time in Japan (I did eventually become a Criminal Justice professor for the college on base, but that’s irrelevant to the book.)
We moved in November 2011 and by January 2012 I was itching to write. For the first time, I had the TIME to write, and not having to worry about a new job, moving, or wiping poopy diapers. So, in February 2012, I started my outline, and writing the book was my full-time job for a while.
We sent out two kids to Japanese Kindergarten (called a Yochien in Japan) and they were gone Monday through Friday from 9:00 to 4:00. I would bring them to the bus stop, wave goodbye, go back up into our apartment, and write until the bus brought them back. It was the first time I could write without distractions, and the first time I was writing not being dead-tired at night after putting in a full day.
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So this new novel was written, for the first time, in a closed-off environment from the distractions of the outside world (and that includes the kids, TV, and normal household noise.) So, it’s not surprising that out of my 4 novels, this one was completely the quickest from inception to publication.
When I was in my office writing, my wife treated it like a job, so she made sure the kids stayed away from me and other household chores were taken care of so I wouldn’t be bothered. I did go back to work as a police office in North Carolina, so my days off from the streets were my days on writing the book.
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6 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
So fun to imagine you writing each book in a different environment.
Hello Pam!
Yes, I completely agree, and Brian's experiences have definitely been varied! :-)
Interesting to hear your story on writing your stories! Ordered 'Yours Truly 2095' & 'Welcome to Parkview' from Amazon. They will be here tomorrow, Friday. I was in need of a new book to read. Now I will have two! Hmmm, which to read first... really looking forward to reading them both!!
Yes. And now book #5 will be written in Monterey, CA since we are moving there June 1.
Thank you so much for taking a chance on them. If I can suggest, I would say Yours Truly, 2095 is an easier and lighter read. Welcome to Parkview is much darker and macabre. So I guess it depends on what mood you're in.
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