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E.L. Chen

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E. L. Chen is the author of SUMMERWOOD/WINTERWOOD, SWEETSIDE MOTEL, SLASHER SUMMER, and ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her son.

**Disclaimer: I resurrected this account to support my fellow writers, so everyone gets 4 or 5 stars.**

Meal planning for busy writers

Some time ago I read a series of social media posts from an author on how they manage writing while holding down a day job. They said they wrote only on weekends, as their Monday to Friday job left them too tired in the evening to even cook dinner, and they ate takeout on those nights.

Reader, my thrifty Chinese single mom self recoiled. Takeout five nights a week, in this economy?? 

To be fair, I d

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