Comments on: HOW I WRITE – Part III – "Finding" Time https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/ Author of the Outlander Series Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: JenerEight https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1450 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:20:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1450 I’m fairly certain we don’t have a resident White Witch, but at the school my daughter attends, (and I work at part time) the Gym/Exam Hall is called the Rose Hall.

]]> By: mstoldt https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1449 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:58:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1449 This is slightly off-topic, but something rather odd happened to me. I was flipping through channels on the T.V. and landed on “Scariest Places on Earth” just long enough to hear someone say “the White Witch” in a Jamaican accent. Curious now, I watched some more and found out that they were at a place called Rose Hall. There was some more about how the White Witch gets angry and jealous and that she is very very evil. So, the point here. Diana, is Rose Hall a real place you used for Voyager? And have you heard this ghost story about the White Witch?

]]> By: charlotte carroll https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1432 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:35:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1432 I love this response to that question, where do you find the time?! I have three children under four years old and a home to take care of. I do all kinds of things and people are always asking me where I find the time to do all the things I do. (novice bee keeping, gardening, keeping chickens and other assorted animals, making soap, sewing) When I tell them my kids don’t watch tv, and I make most everything we eat from scratch, they nearly loose their eyeballs. I think it has to do with actually being a high energy person. Are you an high energy person? I cant just sit. I have to be doing something while sitting. Pregnancy was such a break for me b/c even though I was sitting, I still felt that I was doing something. :)

]]> By: KarenS https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1428 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1428 Diana

I believe you are referring to the Desmond Hotel in Albany. I went there for a conference once; and yes, it is peculiar, almost like they are trying to channel Colonial Williamsburg.

]]> By: Diana Gabaldon https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1424 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:11:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1424 Dear Marcia–

Bars?….oh! That’s a swimming-pool fence. [g] Why am I signing books inside a swimming pool? Well, this was taken (by the ever-kind and gracious Nancy Castaldo) at the Historical Novelists Society conference last April in Albany.

They held the conference at a Really Peculiar (though very interesting) hotel whose name has slipped my mind for the moment. It had sort of “villages” arranged around a huge, long central roofed courtyard–with at least two swimming pools (fenced) in said courtyard. And when it came time for the mass-author signing, evidently they figured that was the best place for crowd control [shrug]. (Yes, one lady _did_ fall in the pool!)

]]> By: Jewell https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1423 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:13:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1423 Dear Diana,

Oddly enough, I do not recall hearing in any interview about your favourite television shows … I wonder why that is? I think more than enough free time gets sucked out the tube, so to speak!

A person really can’t do everything. For me writing is important, but I am a single mom and do work fulltime. However, I have managed to intergrate writing in ‘free-ish’ bits of time. As an Exec Director of a Family Resource Centre I established a Writing Group for parents. This allows me to focus on the craft of writing during work time – no guilt or questioning eyes! Amazing how that has taken off. Family Literacy at its finest! My boys (9 & 13) are proud of the writing I do and often comment on their own writing abilities – “just like mom.” So that is positive parenting for sure. I have the Oxford Guide to Canadian English Usage on my nightstand to help me master the language I did not get drilled into me in school (suggested purchase by Jack Whyte in Surrey, actual reading motivated by this BLOG!)

I think it is all about determination, discipline and devotion. The mantra in the Centre’s Writers Group is … Writer’s Write. It is that simple. We devote as much time as our busy schedules allow, however, when you are passionate – schedules become somewhat more elastic!

Thanks for this post! Always motivating.

]]> By: Keighley Fleming https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1422 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:16:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1422 By the way…. im so jealous you can get away cooking beanie weenies for dinner. When I get around to cooking my husband expects me to have at least 2 side dishes to go with the main. Its this obsession he has with my moms cooking… mother like daughter??? I dont think so.

]]> By: Keighley Fleming https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1421 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:12:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1421 Im so glad you have two new posts!!! I check practically everyday to see if you have posted, because I love the thoughts. Thanks for entertaining me at work, home, and school.

]]> By: Merrymags https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1420 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:35:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1420 Marcia wrote:

“Aha! I see how you are finding time to write–but it looks from your picture on this post that you may be writing from jail with all those bars in the background…:-)”

Marcia,

Do you know how many times I’ve wanted to comment about that? Every time I log onto this blog I look twice because Diana appears to be housed in the slammer — awfully happy about it, though!

It’s a lovely picture, Diana, but you do look guilty.

Midge

PS: Thank you for the encouragement. As I said, I don’t know if anything will come of the story itself, but the loosening of the knot around my heart and gut proves to me the rightness of it.

]]> By: marcia https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:40:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/03/how-i-write-part-iii-finding-time/#comment-1419 Diana:

Aha! I see how you are finding time to write–but it looks from your picture on this post that you may be writing from jail with all those bars in the background…:-)

However you do it, please just continue to write for us!!

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