No, it’s not the beginning of a song. This is my new writing
routine since school went on summer break. Usually you’d find me settled on
the couch, coffee in hand, at around seven-thirty or so after putting the kid
on the school bus. I’d usually write till noon. Now that school is out, things—namely
my writing schedule— have been turned topsy turvy.
To accommodate having my child home during the day, I lose
out on sleep.
No complaints, but well, I really love my sleep.
The new schedule has me up and about at four and I get the
words in until she wakes up, which is usually about seven. So in line with the
loss of sleep and my subsequent grouchiness is the narrow word count. A quick
fix would be to get up even earlier right?
You must be nuts.
The way I look at it, it’s still a win as long as I’m
getting words down. Furthering the story. I’ll take that because I won’t be
taking any more hours off my sleep.
It’s the life of a parent. We fit it in when and where we
can.
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About the Author
l always wanted to have a sexy bio, one
to reflect who I am, but after drawing a blank, l could only come up with: I eat cake and I read books…ooh, and
I write ‘em too. No one liked it and
after massive peer-pressure and pouting, I managed something more…suitable?
A Caribbean
transplant, Avril now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y with a tolerant Spousal
Equivalent. Together they raise an eccentric daughter who loves reading and
school (not so much school anymore). Avril’s earliest memories of reading
revolve around discussing plot points of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys with
an equally book-minded mother
Always in
love with the written word, Avril finally decided to do the writing in August
of ’09 and never looked back. Spicy love scenes, delicious heroes, and wicked
women burn up the pages of Avril’s stories, but there’ll always be a happy
ending; Av remains a believer of love in all its forms.
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