{"id":1399,"date":"2019-06-27T18:40:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2019-06-27T18:40:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:40:26","slug":"mary-beth-keane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who:\u00a0<\/strong>Mary Beth Keane<\/p>\n<p><strong>Claim To Fame: <\/strong>Mary Beth Keane is the author of the instant<em> New York Times<\/em> bestseller\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/5pLNV\">Ask Again, Yes<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0Her first novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/s6rS\">The Walking People<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, and her second novel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/wejG\"><em>Fever<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was named a best book of 2013 by NPR Books, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle. In 2011, she was named to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/people\/mary-beth-keane\/\">National Book Foundation&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;5 under 35,&#8221; and she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where To Find Mary Beth:<\/strong>\u00a0Her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marybethkeane.com\/\">Website<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/B7aJdm\">Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mary_Beth_Keane\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise For Mary Beth:<\/strong><em> \u201cMary Beth Keane takes on one of the most difficult problems in fiction\u2014how to write about human decency. In <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/5pLNV\">Ask Again, Yes<\/a>, Keane creates a layered emotional truth that makes a compelling case for compassion over blame, understanding over grudge, and the resilience of hearts that can accept the contradictions of love.\u201d \u2014 <\/em>Louise Erdrich, author of<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ZT4cBs\"><em> The Round House<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/20-famous-writers-on-when-they-do-their-best-work\/\">When<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/writers-workplaces\/\">where<\/a>\u00a0do you like to write? Are you the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/prolific-writers-routine\/\">same-thing-every-day kind of writer<\/a>\u00a0or can you write anytime, anywhere?<\/h3>\n<p>Now that my kids are in school full time I have a regular routine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/writers-need-exercise\/\">I like to go for a run early in the morning<\/a> \u2013 I think it helps settle me for writing. Then I come home, get my sons up and out for school. Once they\u2019re on their school bus, I begin. To help that transition from morning chaos to writing I usually read for about twenty minutes before I really get going.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Do you struggle at all with that dreaded enemy of writing:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/overcome-writers-block\/\">writer\u2019s block<\/a>? Do you think such a thing exists?<\/h3>\n<p>This is a tough one. There are certainly some stretches that feel much more difficult than others. At one point I changed <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/5pLNV\"><em>Ask Again, Yes<\/em><\/a> from the first person to the third person and when I made that change it felt as if I couldn\u2019t think of a single sentence in the third person. But I really believe you have to write through that, even if the writing is shitty. I think you have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/overcome-writers-block\/\">write your way back to quality sentences<\/a>. I don\u2019t think skipping days and weeks because you\u2019re \u201cblocked\u201d will get you there.<\/p>\n<h3>What do you like to do when you are not writing?<\/h3>\n<p>I read a lot, of course. I wish there were more hours in a day to read. I have two young boys so I\u2019m out with them quite a bit \u2013 at their ball games and school events. The whole family likes to hike. But this all makes me sound very active. I also love lying around doing nothing. Binge watching a show. Especially if it\u2019s rainy or cold outside.<\/p>\n<h3>Deciding on an idea to pursue writing about can be the most challenging aspect for a writer. Do you have a process for generating and capturing ideas? And how do you come to the point of \u2018this is something I want to write about\u2019?<\/h3>\n<p>How to choose one\u2019s subject is so incredibly personal. A writing professor of mine at the University of Virginia once gave my workshop the best advice. He said to wait to start writing until we felt like pots boiling over. I really try to live by that advice. It seems to me that when an idea is true and right, it sort of takes seed and grows. Some ideas SEEM great, but leave me cold when I think too much about them. It\u2019s the ones that make my heart beat faster that are the ones to pursue, I\u2019ve learned. You have to pick something that you\u2019re going to want to stick with for YEARS.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>What does a successful writing day mean for you? And how do you finish out a day of writing? Do you have a process, or is it just that you know you\u2019ve hit a natural stopping point?<\/h3>\n<p>I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/word-count-goals\/\">word count goal<\/a> of 1000 <em>net<\/em> words per writing day, with (realistically) around four writing days per week. Sometimes I meet that goal easily, and sometimes I barely make it. If I cut a lot from whatever I wrote the day before, then I end up having to write far more than a thousand words to meet that goal. Most days I find my natural stopping point right around 1000 words.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/seven-books-every-aspiring-writer-must-read\/\">books<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/best-books-writing-process\/\">writers<\/a>\u00a0have most influenced the way you think and the way you write?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Trevor#Short_story_collections\">William Trevor\u2019s short stories<\/a> have always been a huge influence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/seamus-heaney\">Seamus Heaney\u2019s poetry<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice_Munro\">Alice Munro<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Atwood\">Margaret Atwood<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Strout\">Elizabeth Strout<\/a>. To name just a few. Individual books have also been instrumental at criticial moments in my writing education: <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/SBQgS\"><em>The Known World<\/em><\/a> by Edward P. Jones. <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/PVxvcd\"><em>The Diver\u2019s Clothes Lie Empty<\/em><\/a> by Vendela Vida. <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/yGM9AHL\"><em>How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia<\/em> by Mohsin Hamid<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ZT4cBs\"><em>The Round House<\/em><\/a> by Louise Erdrich. When I find a particular book that cracks open a particular moment of struggle in my own writing life it\u2019s absolutely magical.<\/p>\n<h3>What is your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/expert-advice-to-aspring-writers\/\">advice to aspiring writers<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<p>Read constantly. Read at the level you want to be writing. If you read crap books, your writing will be crap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-ccd1\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--h3 m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--leading\">Ready to create a writing routine of your\u00a0own?<\/h3>\n<p id=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-9a9e\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--h3\">Sign up now and receive our free guide\u00a0<em>\u201c<a class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--anchor m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1514038873687000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5yl1byOuXmZDdLI8muC9FJDeFvg\"><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-strong\">12 Essential Writing Routines To Help You To Craft Your Own<\/span><\/a><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-strong\">.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"m_-8554750413077525544e4c2\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--p\">Learn from the routines of superstar authors\u00a0<em class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--em m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-em\">Stephen King, Gertrude Stein, John Grisham, Ernest Hemingway, Neil Gaiman, and many more.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"m_-8554750413077525544e2d7\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--h4 m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--trailing\"><a class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--anchor m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--h4-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1514038873687000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5yl1byOuXmZDdLI8muC9FJDeFvg\"><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--h4-strong\">Get the free guide\u00a0here!<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"block margin_top_med margin_bottom_med\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who:\u00a0Mary Beth Keane Claim To Fame: Mary Beth Keane is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller\u00a0Ask Again, Yes.\u00a0Her first novel The Walking People\u00a0was a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, and her second novel,\u00a0Fever\u00a0was named a best book of 2013 by NPR Books, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By - Writing Routines<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By - Writing Routines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who:\u00a0Mary Beth Keane Claim To Fame: Mary Beth Keane is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller\u00a0Ask Again, Yes.\u00a0Her first novel The Walking People\u00a0was a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, and her second novel,\u00a0Fever\u00a0was named a best book of 2013 by NPR Books, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle. [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Writing Routines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/writingroutines\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1333\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevin Currie\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@writingroutines\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@writingroutines\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kevin Currie\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kevin Currie\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2da8a719a4aa9d1696b8bd8759fe175\"},\"headline\":\"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/\"},\"wordCount\":937,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Fiction\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/\",\"name\":\"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By - Writing Routines\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1333},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/\",\"name\":\"Writing Routines\",\"description\":\"A behind-the-scenes look at the daily habits of writers and authors\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Writing Routines\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/writing-routines.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/writing-routines.png\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Writing Routines\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/writingroutines\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/writingroutines\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/writingroutines\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2da8a719a4aa9d1696b8bd8759fe175\",\"name\":\"Kevin Currie\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a895ee40fa4dc9bd6e05a5b3cc103d0f686e1b2c695f3dd8885f82d2a4dd379a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a895ee40fa4dc9bd6e05a5b3cc103d0f686e1b2c695f3dd8885f82d2a4dd379a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kevin Currie\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By - Writing Routines","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By - Writing Routines","og_description":"Who:\u00a0Mary Beth Keane Claim To Fame: Mary Beth Keane is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller\u00a0Ask Again, Yes.\u00a0Her first novel The Walking People\u00a0was a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, and her second novel,\u00a0Fever\u00a0was named a best book of 2013 by NPR Books, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle. [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/","og_site_name":"Writing Routines","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/writingroutines\/","article_published_time":"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2000,"height":1333,"url":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kevin Currie","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@writingroutines","twitter_site":"@writingroutines","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kevin Currie","Estimated reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/"},"author":{"name":"Kevin Currie","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2da8a719a4aa9d1696b8bd8759fe175"},"headline":"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By","datePublished":"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/"},"wordCount":937,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg","articleSection":["Fiction"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/","url":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/","name":"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By - Writing Routines","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg","datePublished":"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-27T17:40:26+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/marybethkeane.jpg","width":2000,"height":1333},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/mary-beth-keane\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Bestselling Author Mary Beth Keane On Keeping A Regular Routine, Setting A Word Count Goal, and The Writing Advice She Lives By"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/","name":"Writing Routines","description":"A behind-the-scenes look at the daily habits of writers and authors","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#organization","name":"Writing Routines","url":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/writing-routines.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/writing-routines.png","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Writing Routines"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/writingroutines\/","https:\/\/x.com\/writingroutines","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/writingroutines\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a2da8a719a4aa9d1696b8bd8759fe175","name":"Kevin Currie","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a895ee40fa4dc9bd6e05a5b3cc103d0f686e1b2c695f3dd8885f82d2a4dd379a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a895ee40fa4dc9bd6e05a5b3cc103d0f686e1b2c695f3dd8885f82d2a4dd379a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kevin Currie"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}