It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
Don't make a threat and then not do it.
I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.