Sure. I mean in terms of my relationship with my editors, and I have quite a few of them, as long as they all know that I’m always right [laughs], then we’re good. Now, when I wake up from that dream — so, my process of writing is very, very different than when I lived 20 years ago in Arlington, Virginia on Columbia Pike and was trying to sort of find my place in the writerly world and I wrote whenever I was inspired. I wrote on the bus to work.
I wrote during lunch breaks. And so that was then, but now with deadlines and contracts and sort of plans, I write five hours a day. I start fairly early, maybe about five or six. I get a couple of hours in and when I’m at home, I walk my daughter to school and then I get a couple more hours.
And that’s generally when I’m under deadline. But I don’t necessarily stick to that process. There’s another process. I have a writing group and sometimes we write together. So, maybe after my daughter goes to school, we’ll all meet at this wonderful café and we write for about five hours together and we spend about an hour and a half talking.
And then the final sort of way I write is when I’m on the road, and this year I’ve been on the road quite a bit. And so I find myself writing on planes and in hotels and in airports, and there’s no rhyme or reason.