Liz Lydic is a mother, and works full-time as a municipal government employee. She writes early in the mornings before work, during work when she needs a break from paper-pushing, and occasionally uses paid sick/vacation time to take a day off to write or participate in writing workshops and webinars.
Anthony Cordasco is a farmer, teacher, silversmith, caregiver, blacksmith, and maker of sundials. He writes on a Royal Quiet Delux typewriter. He knows his sheep and all there is about metal. Everything else is suspect.
mk zariel {it/its} is a full-time high school student, does internships at nonprofits and local art galleries, does a lot of freelancing besides writing (lots of graphic design! also theater!), occasionally resorts to survey apps and "passive income" apps that are probably scams, and despises capitalism.