Now I'm starting a new career and trying to fit in my writing. I have small spurts where I write consistently, and then I fall off the tracks. However, I've made a new commitment to myself to keep a better schedule, but to make it reasonable. I overwhelm myself by expecting large chunks of writing everyday and then I put the writing off. I'm spending the next month brainstorming/plotting my WIP, and then (fingers crossed) going to stick to writing it. Even if it's slow and steady.
What are your writing habits? Can you keep to a writing schedule you set?
Slow and steady still gets it done. Sometimes our schedules don't allow for large chunks of writing every day.
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm working on a manuscript, it's three hours a night no matter what. Mostly because I hate writing the first draft and just want to get it done!
Three hours a night is impressive! I wish I had that discipline.
DeleteI keep meaning to get better at being consistent, but I'm still struggling w/it. In the past three weeks I've prolly only written 1500 words, which will not get my book done anytime soon. I've just been tired from work and having things on the side I'm trying to get done. I'm hoping to participate in Ready. Set. Write., so hopefully that'll get my butt back on track!
ReplyDeleteOh, what is Ready. Set. Write?
Deletel work around my day job. No set hours makes the writing life complicated. :-)
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Making the time is what is most important :)
DeleteI seem to write all the time! I'm a freelance writer as my "day job," though, so that's how I make my money. Writing fiction is a luxury.
ReplyDeleteI had considered trying to freelance write, but I'm so afraid that if writing things for others is my "job," I won't want to work on my own stories anymore. I know myself too well. I hope you find the inspiration to keep writing fiction! :)
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