Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Yes, You Can Find Time to Write, Even If You Are Very Busy

Many writers don't have endless time to devote to their writing. And this is a real pity because the best writing you can do comes in one to two hour blocks. Otherwise, your writing is probably choppy and inconsistent.
To write for one to two hour blocks, you'll probably have to change the way you approach your writing. You will also have to schedule times when you have an expanse of at least one hour so that you could write unencumbered.
Here are a few ways to create one to two hour blocks of writing time.
• Look over your various roles and goals. Write them down on a separate page in your planner.
• Take out a weekly planner that has an hour-by-hour outlay.
• Write in all of your obligations in your planner, such as your day job, your family obligations, appointments, and so on.
• Look at any one to two hour time slots that are not used up - such as the time when you wake up in the morning or in the evening after dinner perhaps.
• Decide when you can fit in some writing time into your day and week. The best time to write for busy people is first thing in the morning or last thing in the day.
• Take a red pen or marker and write down when you could devote a large stretch of your time to write.
• Make everyone in your family aware that you will be writing at these times.
• Then when the time comes, make sure that you go and write. Make no excuses. They your family and friends will know that you are serious about your writing.
If you look at your schedule and discover that you have very few spaces of one to two hours, you may have to rethink your priorities and pastimes so that writing fits into your life.
Look at some time sucks in your life, such as watching four to five hours of television every night or wasting time doing something else such as shining the living room floor for the third time. Can you get a housekeeper and devote that time to writing? Do you shop every day? Limit that time so that you could write.
By taking these steps, you will be doing a lot of writing with a little of effort and rethinking of our life. We all have pockets of one to two hours a day that we can devote to writing. All we have to do is find it, and our lives will be very different and we will indeed be successful writers

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