by CharlotteAt a writer's conference, I heard this quotation attributed to Ron Carlson, "It only takes twenty minutes to write a novel. Twenty minutes a day." This can be twenty minutes in the car before you pick up your children from school or before you do the weekly grocery shopping. Instead of a dedicated space, it is the dedicated time that will help us get the work done. The novelist Walter Mosley offers similar advice in his book, This Year You Write Your Novel. H [...]