Grammar Girl here. I'm In Jan Fogarty, and if you have trouble making yourself sit down and actually write, you are going to love today's show because I'm here with Mary Robinette Cole, writer, narrator, puppeteer, podcaster, extraordinaire.

And I've known Mary for,

feels like forever,

because she's also the host of the writing excuses podcast,

which has been going,

you know,

almost as long as Grammar Girl.

And that is for fiction writers.

But we're going to talk about all kinds of writing today.

Mary Robinette,

welcome to the Grammer Girl podcast.

Thank you so much. I am a huge fan and I'm very happy to be here. Thank you. Well, I'm happy to have you here because I happened to watch a video you put out a while ago, but I only

watched it recently called Overcoming Barriers to Writing. And I have to say I have some barriers to write them.

So say we all.

You know, I do great when, you know, I have a weekly deadline for the podcast.

No problem.

Yep.

But, you know, side projects rarely get written.

Yes.

Yeah, this is, that's a really common thing that people have.

And I also hear it a lot from people who were, had like a full-time job and then they quit to go to be a writer.

And suddenly when you have unlimited time to write, you absolutely can't.

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