First Draft to Published

My Indie Writing Life Kim Antieau This essay was going to be about my typical writing day, but I don’t have a typical writing day. Nearly every day is atypical, odd, unusual, and irregular. Be forewarned: What follows is the minutiae of my life as a writer, exciting to some and dull to others! Once a year, my husband (writer Mario Milosevic) and I go on a writing retreat in the Southwest for a month. During that month, our days are fairly regular. Mario gets up when it’s still dark, leaves the casita where we stay, and walks through the desert to the tiny studio where we write. (It’s called the Quail House.) He writes for several hours.