Making Time to Write

DON’T LET CIRCUMSTANCES KEEP YOU FROM WRITING






Everybody’s circumstances are different. When I had a lot of young children I would write when my children were at sports practice. I’d sit up in the bleachers and I’d write. When they’d watch television in the evening I would write. That was very disjointed, but I made it work because I wanted to write.




Some of my friends would get up at 3 or 4 in the morning to write before their kids got up. I couldn’t do that, but they could. Everyone has to choose when you have time to write.


Think about Jean-Dominque Bauby who in 1995 had a stroke and became paralyzed. He could only blink in order to communicate. He used that system of blinking to write about his life which became a book called The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. That book has been turned into a movie. We overcome what stops us when our goal becomes our passion.

If you think about it, if you write just one page a day, one page, at the end of a year you have a story written
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CREATING HABITS

If you can write even 15 or 20 minutes and try to make it the same time of day pretty soon your mind becomes accustomed to thinking of stories at that time of day. The stories come to you faster and faster and more readily because you have created a habit and disciplined your mind to think just like anything you practice all the time. If you do that the same time of day your mind starts to expect to have to come up with those stories. It’s like muscle memory, but this is your creative muscle.

EXCUSES

Anyone can make excuses. The truth is, if you want to do it, you’ll find a way to do it. That’s the way with anything in life. Do it, or don’t do it. You can say to me, “I spent a year putting my office together.” And I’d say to you, “Why didn’t you spend a year writing?” There are always excuses not to do something. I have taught myself to write pretty much anywhere when I need to and I write 5 books a year.

SOME ARTICLES/BLOGS TO CONSIDER

Fantasy Author’s Handbook Blog- Save the Bullshit Excuses- Here


The Weeklings Blog- Calling Bullshit On A Writer’s Top 10 Excuses For Not Writing Here