I sat in on a writing seminar
where two successful romance writers were brutally honest
about their writing lives.
They said that they worked,
hard,
writing for over eight hours a day,
and THEN promoting and editing
and doing the zillion other things writers do.
One mommy writer said she took edits
to her kid’s soccer games
and when her kid wasn’t on the field,
she was working.
Mompreneurs, despite media perception,
have it as rough.
They work long hours for their success.
Danielle Botterell,
one of the co-authors of
Mom Inc.,
says
“Mompreneurship has been in the press
for the past few years,
but sometimes we find the accounts
in the press are a bit one-sided.
‘I’m with my baby all the time
and I’m making so much money.’
We wanted to let people know
spending time on the floor
playing with your baby
and making money
is sometimes mutually exclusive.”
“If you’re planning on
having your children around
when you’re starting your business,
like we did,
that’s working part time
and that means part time money,
but of course children grow
and things change
so it’s really about finding the right balance.”
Having it all isn’t a myth.
Having it all at the same time IS.