Work-life Weaver Gifts

"Are you busy or are you at work?"

"I wonder if A.I. will inevitably become as tired and depressed as we are."

"I'd like a week off without any business related e-mail on my home computer."

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

"I'll wait a moment for everyone's energy drink to kick in."

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

'We like your zip-a-dee. You need to work on your dooh-dah.'

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

Working Late

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

"So start throwing together about 10 novels a week and bring them in on Wednesdays."

Writers without borders.

'Not here - home!'

'What do you mean...You feel uncomfortable asking for time off?'

'Budget cuts have forced us to drop our day-care program. I've contacted your mother to come and pick you up.'

'Dear, you know how I hate it when you bring your work home.'

Kirsten Johnson

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

"I noticed that since I've been working at home you've been paying me hazard pay. How did you know?"

Balancing Family and Work

'Is this your first book launch?'

Emily Dickinson Rebooted

Man leaving his office with his computer tangled around his leg,

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

"We were unwinding, and Frances come unwound completely."

"Be or be not. There is no question."

Welsh practice launches formal objection to 'unmanageable' new housing.

'Man asleep in double bed with a pencil.'

"It's a GPS for busy executive mom. It tells you if your coming or going and when you'll get there!"

'Little has changed since you called saying you had to work overtime. Except John Wayne died. Oh, and there's a new thing called the 'Internet'.'