Writing Process - the revised schedule

[whipchick]

everywordiwrite inquires in a comment:

How much time are you devoting a day to writing? Is that still including research? Right now, is writing your main career focus? How varied are the types of things you're writing about? Do you include editing time with writing time, or separately, or are you saving it for later?

Curiosity sparked by personal need to return

Comments

[writerdoc]

Your schedule sounds amazing and I am envious. :P

[whipchick]

I am very, very lucky to be able to take time off right now, and I feel guilty every time I waste it :)

[writerdoc]

Enjoy it for all it's worth. ;)

[ecosopher]

Deadlines work quite well for me, too. I also tend to do good work in 'sprints' -- setting the timer for ten minutes or so and focussing on one thing (chapter/essay/character/scene). I used this technique in NaNo and it applies well to normal work too. It's particularly good during the day when I've children to ignore take care of. They can easily play without interrupting me for ten minutes and when the timer goes off then they know I'm once again available to bother with their incessant noise and questions parent them.

These days, though, I'm actually finding that I can fit in about an hour most evenings before bed. Obviously the trouble is, I get really tired by then, but between 8 and 10, it's rare that they'll wake and need me, so it's a good chance to get some words down. I sit at the kitchen table so I can be near M who's in the adjoining loungeroom and usually I handwrite.

I'm interested in your memoir. Is it your own or someone else's?

[kathrynrose]

I have this really cool writing buddy, and she's been encouraging me to write every day. :)

[jem0000000]

I usually write after work, although sometimes I get stuck and write before work, which is never a good idea. I try to write on my days off as well, but those typically end up being catch-up-on-everything days instead. Current goal is to write five days out of seven; so far, I'm still doing four out of seven, which has been my schedule for like a year and a half now. (Hello, lasting habits from LJI.) I was doing seven days a week for a while before that, and I want to get back into that schedule.

Right now, I have two ideas for a Home Game entry for LJI, and another longer idea about a girl who goes to visit her grandfather for the summer. His house changes time periods. The setting is perfect for the standard coming-of-age tale, but I'm probably going to twist things around a little -- although as of the moment there is no plot yet, so I don't really know. But it's always good to suspect a perfect setting of secretly having a completely different tale to tell.

As I find myself with extra free time

[drwex]

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