How Being A Mother Makes Me A Bad Writer

Learning to juggle motherhood and writing can be a challenge

Melissa Miles McCarter
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readJul 13, 2019

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Photo credit: Melissa Miles McCarter

Before I had my daughter, I wrote something almost every day. I did this for over 30 years. I defined myself as a writer. I worked very hard to be a published writer.

But I gave it up to be a mother.

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