A Goodreads user asked Michael Finocchiaro:

I'm finally getting an ebook version of your book tomorrow. Woop Woop! My Question is, how do you manage to do everything day to day? Haha, I think you have children, right? You also read very avidly and write and live. This might sound pedantic, but what is your daily schedule like? How do you fit in writing everyday?

Michael Finocchiaro Hi Armando!
I can't wait to hear your feedback! As for How did I manage this? Well, I tried to have a rather strict discipline of 3h of writing per day when I wrote the book. It was convenient that I was also on a sort of work hiatus. But, I am a pretty productive person and once Gramble and the other characters started talking to me, the story just flowed out. And yes, I do also read a lot - on the train, in the metro, before going to sleep, at lunch - basically any free moment that I am not with the wife and kids :)
Work has sort of picked up a bit and has started to give me writer's constipation so progress on G2 (as I am calling the sequel for the moment) is frustratingly slow. G1 (Sophie's Playlist) took me only five weeks to finish, but G2 is dragging. I have been less focused on it and have a scant 82 pages finished of what I project to be about 250 or 300 pages. I have also had to put a bit on energy into promoting G1 via LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Goodreads, so that has also sucked up some of my free brain cycles - more than I expected - but many have told me that the work of editing and promoting a self-published book is nearly the same about of effort as writing it!

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