#WritersCoffeeClub 4: How do you write the time? In text or numbers? Both? Why?

Goddamn, this is a hard one and I go back and forth on it!

Short answer is I do whatever I think will be least disruptive to the reader in context while staying consistent.

This tends to mean numbers in description and words in dialogue, but it really depends on context and how cumbersome writing out the words would be to read. If the way a character says the time is causing an issue, I recast it. 

 Fortunately, this hasn't really been an issue in my Ruby Jones work. People think more in amount of time passed (which I treat as I would other numbers - numerals up to 10 and then words) rather than specific times of the day. But it has caused me frustration and dithering and the hope that an editor just applies the house style somewhere down the road where my other pen name is concerned.