If you weren't a writer, what do you think you would be doing?

May 29, 2014 | Q & A

Where I spend most of my day...

Where I spend most of my day…

This is one of the easier questions I’ve been asked. My day job is working as a bookkeeper and administrator, along with being the Mum to two gorgeous boys. So chances are I’d be doing that – and probably getting a lot more sleep as I do most of my writing at night after the kids are in bed!

Even keeping that in mind, I have always written, even when I didn’t consider myself a writer, so I’m sure that writing and words would play a part in whatever I was doing. I just wouldn’t be writing with a view of getting published or to make a living out of it.

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