Goodreads asked Francesca Armour-Chelu:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Francesca Armour-Chelu Write! I'm not being facetious. Despite my posh name I don't come from a wealthy family-my parents were artists and worked all hours and like them I worked two jobs when I started Fenn Halflin,and had two children under 5! It wasn't until maternity leave with my third child that I got a chance to get the first draft completed. You have to have 'mental space' to write BUT if you can't get that then you have to simply still steal that space, even if it's only ten minutes or so - on your commute to work, or waiting for the potatoes to boil. Keep a notebook, jot down ideas, describe someone who sat opposite you on the bus. NEVER stop thinking of yourself as a writer-just because you clean other people's houses doesn't mean you're a cleaner not writer. You're both.

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