Welcome to our 91st Road Trip Wednesday!
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This Week's Topic:
Time. That tricky little minx always seems to do its darndest to avoid me. It's funny that today's prompt was about time and how it relates to our writing schedules, because I spent most of my morning plotting out my life for the Fall semester using Google Calender. It's color-coded with all of my classes, job schedule, and my weekly Editor meeting. I really like it.
The one thing it doesn't have though, are allotted time slots for me to sit and write for fun. That's just what I get for having a busy life, right? Wrong. (Does that make sense? I don't know. I haven't had espresso today.)
I can't plan for when I write. Sometimes I write in the morning. Other times the night is when inspiration grabs hold of my ponytail and won't let go until I've churned out a couple thousand words. Inspiration is a beyotch like that.
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My point is this: I prefer to do my writing when I can sit down uninterrupted for a while. It's not a set date that I look forward to every day or week, but it isn't too rare of an occasion either. Just when I start to despair of never getting a chance to write ever again, I stumble across a block of time that seems to have fallen straight from the heavens, and I use it to mollify that part of me that fears being too busy to do what I want to do.
Every time it happens I'm always surprised, and I just take it as a sign that I'm meant to be a writer. Even time understands my destiny. Either that or I'm just extremely lucky.
YES to the inspiration thing. Sometimes I want to write so badly but the inspiration just isn't there. And other times I'm inspired like crazy, but can't get to a computer/writing utensils.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the uninterrupted hours I can steal, and they are often my most productive. I have also found I can crank out some good stuff in twenty minutes (lunch). But I do tend to work best in the morning.
ReplyDelete@Francesca: Ah yes, the missing utensils bit. That is usually right about the time inspiration visits while I'm either driving or in the shower. Such a diva.
ReplyDelete@Alison: I have found that when I can get a morning to myself, I am productive. There's just something about that first cup of coffee, no places to be or things to do, and a blank Word doc that gets my writing kicked into gear. It's very nice.
I write at all different times of the day. I'll wake up and start typing first thing, while other days I'll stay up until the wee hours of the night. I don't discriminate!
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