Back in the day, when my kids were little and I lived in the country and I was an unknown novelist, I had a schedule so regular that it was practically Pavlovian, and I loved it. The school bus came, I started to write. The school bus returned, I stopped.
Francine Prose, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
One notes that Prose's strategy works with children that are old enough to go to school. I wonder how she dealt with the earlier stages in their lives.
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