All parents dread that whine during the school holidays: ‘I’m bored!’ And it’s the last thing any writer wants to hear when an editor has just commissioned an urgent feature, or a publisher needs those novel edits back by the end of the day. So can writers get any work done during the long school summer holidays, or do we write it off as a writing-free zone?
Anita Loughrey writes children’s fiction, non-fiction and teacher resources for a wide range of publishers. Originally, she juggled writing in her spare time, while being a primary school teacher by day and also a mother to two children. It was only in 2002, after the birth of her third child, that she became a full-time writer.