If you can't find time to write while juggling a full-time job and family, your solution could be in what writer Tom Morrisey calls "stolen-time" writing or "writing in the margins."

Tom is a business writer who writes for clients like the Ford Motor Company. He writes novels, too. His latest novel, Turn Four, was published to rave reviews in February 2004 by HarperCollins Zondervan. Tom wrote about his stolen writing time in a post he made to the AlphaSmart Community Web site, at http://www1.alphasmart.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

(The AlphaSmart is a fabulous, inexpensive laptop-computer alternative which many writers use.)

Here's an extract from the post which impressed me because it reveals exactly how to write in stolen moments:

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I carried the AlphaSmart with me, literally everywhere during our day. With a laptop, this would be like walking around with a small dumbbell, but the AS3K is light enough that it was as effortless as carrying a book. Greenfield Village is full of historic buildings, and a brief look into each one is usually sufficient for me. I