Discussion time!
Sep. 25th, 2009 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gaudiorBecause I'm curious...
Writers on my flist-- how do you make time to write? And how do you get yourself to keep writing consistently?
Myself, I find that it works to have a block of time each day which is for writing-- I use "on the train between my jobs." It's about an hour, and it's relatively free from other stuff I could be doing. But I've also found that my motivation to keep writing is much higher as I'm getting toward the end of the book, such that I have little trouble getting myself to sit down and write even at times other than my scheduled time that day, if I miss that time. (Whereas before, I would often have days where at my scheduled time I was not in the mood/tired/hungry/too interested in reading a book/etc, and skip them.)
But how do other people do it? What works well for you?
--R
Writers on my flist-- how do you make time to write? And how do you get yourself to keep writing consistently?
Myself, I find that it works to have a block of time each day which is for writing-- I use "on the train between my jobs." It's about an hour, and it's relatively free from other stuff I could be doing. But I've also found that my motivation to keep writing is much higher as I'm getting toward the end of the book, such that I have little trouble getting myself to sit down and write even at times other than my scheduled time that day, if I miss that time. (Whereas before, I would often have days where at my scheduled time I was not in the mood/tired/hungry/too interested in reading a book/etc, and skip them.)
But how do other people do it? What works well for you?
--R
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Date: 2009-09-25 04:08 pm (UTC)Which means I only write if I'm inspired and can somehow motivate myself, since I live with the impression that there's always time and it's alright if I get sidetracked.
If you're wondering how that works, simple: most of the time it doesn't. I'm mildly disgusted at the amount of time I waste when I have so many stories demanding and begging to be finished. ~__~ I think I wrote more regularly back when I still went to school, since I spent all day unable to do anything but plot and go "omg this scene needs to be written aaaaaaa" and threw myself at the computer to type it down the second I came home.