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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