By the time my children went with their mother it was 4pm. Got home around 4:30 and couldn’t get myself to write. It was stubbornness. I knew I had no excuse, and I also knew that writing would eventually happen before it was too late. I had to get the damn ten pages done.

I loved every minute of it.

From 7:45 to 9:45pm I pushed hard, and produced these e…