Megan Stielstra, author of: Once I Was Cool, personal essays Age of kid: 6 years What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? My writing schedule—my schedule, period—is a bit all-over-the-place. I’ve…
Megan Stielstra, author of: Once I Was Cool, personal essays Age of kid: 6 years What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? My writing schedule—my schedule, period—is a bit all-over-the-place. I’ve…
Ben Tanzer is the author of Lost in Space: A Father’s Journey There and Back Again, Orphans, You Can Make Him Like You, Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine, Daddy Cool, Lucky Man, and I Am.…
Curtis Smith, author of Beasts and Men; Witness; Species Crown; Truth or Something Like It; Sound and Noise; Bad Monkey Age of kids: one boy, 11 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has…
Hey! I’m so used to spouting off on Twitter and Facebook that I sometimes forget there are people keeping tabs on me over here instead. So let’s play a bit of catchup. I’m heading back out on tour. If you…
Amelia Kahaney, author of: The Brokenhearted and The Invisible (to be released in October 2014) Age of kid: 5.5 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? When I try to remember…
Vica Miller, author of Inga’s Zigzags, a novel; short stories Age of kids: 7.5 and 4.5 I always wrote whenever I could, but having kids made me more disciplined. Before children, I would write late into the night, or take…
Kim Brooks is at work on her first novel. Her short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, Five Chapters, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Meridian, and other journals. Her non-fiction appears frequently on Salon. Age of kids:…
Javier Moreno, author of Lo definitivo y lo temporal (2008), Inframundo (2010) and Despegue (coming in 2014) Age of kid: 17 months. What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? My writing…
Devotion and Distraction Orli Van Mourik Almost exactly eleven weeks ago my daughter, Margot, was born howling. The midwife placed her slippery pink body on my chest, still shimmering, and she immediately hoisted her head up to look at me:…
Sean Ferrell, author of Man in the Empty Suit and Numb I found my son destroying a drawing. He’d worked on it for at least half an hour, one of his monster creations with a thousand eyes on a hundred…