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For your day-job, do you work in a writing intensive field? In some ways, these writers have the hardest time trying to write when they come home from work.

As we move into day three of Writing with a Day-Job Week, I have some writing advice from Brian Francis Slattery, a first-time novelist and non-fiction editor who wrote the trippy love novel, Spaceman Blues.

In our interview, he told me that the secret is writing your novel or book in "concentrated bursts" after work. Slattery told us how he balanced his non-fiction editing job and his fiction writing careers in this timely quote:

"I usually write to take a break from editing--again, three to five times a week, for a couple of hours at a stretch. I can't write well for more than two hours, it seems, anyway."

If you want more advice from Slattery, follow these links: 

Slattery explained How To Become A Better Travel Writer

and How To Write About Fantastical Places Without Sounding Like A Big Nerd

and How To Write Musical Prose

and finally, my favorite, The World's First and Briefest Writing Workshop Dedicated Solely To The Art Of The Literary Headline.