There are few authors who are so blessed as to be able to sit down for eight hours a day and just write. Most of us grab what we can in bits and snatches, often between four or five other demands, and are lucky to get ten minutes at a time. It can be hard to bounce back and forth between writing and “real life” and then back to writing. We lose our place in the story, we forget what we were about to write when we were called away, and we forget what words we may have already