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I was a teacher for 35 years, and had three children (one of whom is severely mentally disabled, now a young adult,) a very needy mother and a husband who got home from his job at 9:00 PM every night, so ...
I got up early, like you, and wrote from 4:30 AM until I left for work around 6:00. (I also had to fit in making lunches, showering, getting dressed, warming up the cars, laying out clothes for the kids and blah blah, etc. etc.)
I wrote on weekends; I trained my two older children to leave me alone when I was writing. They often fell asleep to the clackety-clack of my Olivetti business typewriter. When child No. 3 came along, he was often with me, at my feet, playing while I wrote.
Thing is this, and you're finding it out, too, if you want to write, you find a way. If a person loves golf, they golf: rain or shine, demanding job or not, large family or small - they GOLF.
Same goes for writing, and more power to you for figuring out ways to fit it in.
I got up early, like you, and wrote from 4:30 AM until I left for work around 6:00. (I also had to fit in making lunches, showering, getting dressed, warming up the cars, laying out clothes for the kids and blah blah, etc. etc.)
I wrote on weekends; I trained my two older children to leave me alone when I was writing. They often fell asleep to the clackety-clack of my Olivetti business typewriter. When child No. 3 came along, he was often with me, at my feet, playing while I wrote.
Thing is this, and you're finding it out, too, if you want to write, you find a way. If a person loves golf, they golf: rain or shine, demanding job or not, large family or small - they GOLF.
Same goes for writing, and more power to you for figuring out ways to fit it in.