Writing Is Often Difficult, So Is Living With A Writer. . . Or So I’ve Been Told

I may appear to be merely browsing, but don’t interrupt me. I’m creating a work of staggering genius. (author’s photo)

Living alone means being able to write without interruption.

It’s hard to explain to a non-writer what interruption does to concentration. The frustration of having found just the right word, the exact turn of phrase only to have it vanish into thin air because of an interruption.