[Steven Lake]

Greetings most venerated and gifted fellow pen smiths! I have a question. And this just comes from an observation in my own life. For those of you who have full time jobs (40hrs a week or more), as well as even possibly family and other things, how do you handle working your job and keeping up with your writing hobbies? I ask because I currently work 50+ hours a week (Five 10's a week or more) and yet still somehow manage to put out about 6k-12k words a week in writing, sometimes upwards of 20k over a week. It's kind of a balancing act between doing well at my job and still producing quality literature on my offtime. (writing is a relaxing hobby for me, so it's my stress reliever, and benefits others with the enjoyment of a good story!) In the end I'm wondering how you guys handle the balancing act between work and writing in your own lives.