Who do you spend the most time with?
Storytime…
Two years ago, I was in the process of revising my first full-length novel, which was The Maenad, and I was getting my start on TikTok. I’d found a few other indie authors and had done some writing sprints with them here and there. Then I came across a relatively new indie author who was going Live every Wednesday and inviting others to join her as a sort of body doubling. I started joining her Lives regularly that summer.
There were a couple other authors who would join us, but they mostly stayed in the comment section, chatting and sprinting. By August, they had started joining us on-screen. We all agree to participate in novel writing month that year. One night in September, we were talking about the authors who’ve inspired us, and we each had a connection to Nora Roberts. That conversation led to a discussion of her work ethic and how she puts in 8 hours a day toward writing her books. Well, we couldn’t exactly schedule 8 hours each day because we all had full-time jobs at the time, but we agreed to go Live every night for November to hit the 50k word goal for the month.
Britton, who had been leading the Lives, started using the caption #NoraRobertsingIt on each of our sprinting sessions. Soon after, we discussed registering for author signing events together just so we could meet each other in real life. We argued whether we should be in a back-to-back quad, across the aisle from each other, or in a row. Roberts Row was born that night. Since those random Wednesdays just two years ago, the four of us have individually published a total of 29 books and then collectively published 4 anthologies.
So, when this prompt asked who do I spend the most time with, the answer is definitely my Roberts Row besties. I mean, we even have our own logo and a page on each of our websites.
