How to Write a Book When You’ve Got a Full-Time Job

All you need is structure and a process.

Me at Barnes and Noble with my first book, 2008.

When people tell me that the mark of a writer is someone who commits to a word count or page count every day, I laugh the laugh of crazed serial killers — the kind of back-of-the-throat guttural cackle that causes most people to slowly step away.