What's my favourite thing about writing? The title says it all: flexibility.

The flexibility to write when and where I want (or sometimes when and where I can!). With three kids in the house, one of which is of pre-school age, you can imagine how busy home life is. Or just life.

When baby naps, I write. When she doesn't nap, I don't write. Sometimes I have a list of things to choose from when she naps: should I 1) use the washroom? 2) have a bite to eat before I faint of hunger? 3) check my Line/Facebook messages? 4) do yoga? 5) write?

And sometimes I write in my head because I can't get to pen and paper or keyboard and computer straight away.

Like today when I suddenly had to take my toddler out in the rain to drop off her oldest brother's project at school because he left home without it.

And suddenly a story emerged. But I was getting my toddler into the van at the time. So I wrote the lines in my head, rolled them around on my tongue, smiled, repeated them to my patient tot to see how they sounded, if they could be improved.

And that, my friends, was the seed of a story. With some encouragement, it could grow into a sapling-story.