Jodi Egerton, a writer who has turned her red pen and creative flair into a consulting business, finds her time often divided into two categories: “kid-friendly” and “escape from kids.”

Not that she ever wants to escape her kids. As a mom, Egerton loves taking her young son and daughter around town to nearby restaurants like Thrice/Thai Fresh or Bouldin Creek Cafe.

But now she’s also running a business and slowly rekindling a hobby. Egerton, a former St. Edward’s University professor, launched Write Good Consulting after realizing how often people were coming to her for writing and editing help. One component of the business is occasional workshops — including one on Jan. 26 at the Writing Barn, near Manchaca Road and Slaughter Lane, that taps into her skills at improvisation.

“I took writing exercises from my time at St. Edward’s and took improv games and combined them to make Word Play,” the name of the workshop, Egerton said.

She will brush up on her talent at improv comedy a couple weeks prior for a Jan. 16 show at the Vortex, on Manor Road, that reunites her with her old improv troupe, a group that includes her husband, Owen. In fact, the troupe is how they met and fell in love.

“We were big in improv until improv actually got big in Austin,” Egerton said with a laugh about their old group, ComedySportz, which is no longer together. Some of its members are still involved in the comedy scene, however, including Owen, who has been one of the comedians behind the Alamo Drafthouse’s Master Pancake series.

Like Jodi Egerton, Owen keeps busy with multiple creative projects at a time. In April, his new novel, “Everyone Says That at the End of the World,” will debut with a release party at the Whip-In, a gastropub and microbrewery off Interstate 35 that is creating a beer just for the occasion. (The Egertons are good friends with the current general manager there, Dipak Topiwala.) Egerton said her husband’s book is a love letter of sorts to Austin, mentioning businesses such as the Yellow Jacket Social Club (formerly Cafe Mundi) and the Soup Peddler, a soup delivery service that also sells its wares at the Juicebox locations on South Lamar Boulevard and Mary Street.

Both Egertons love Austin and spend plenty of time exploring it with their kids. They might play around at Butler Square Park or visit the Austin Nature and Science Center at the western edge of Zilker Park.

Or they might make a date night out of seeing the shows of another good friend of theirs, Bob Schneider, who performs every Monday at the Saxon Pub.