Planning Your Writing Time
April 12th 2010 12:29
In an attempt to help balance life, school, and writing, I've tried many times-and failed many times-to plan structured writing time. This includes scheduling which hours to write in, what to write in those hours, which days to do how much writing, and a constant debate in my head-does reading blogs count as writing time?
If you've been following my blog for a long time, you've probably seen my attempts to schedule my time. If you haven't, then you might have missed them. Long story short, in the last six months I've tried several times to schedule my writing, but I've never fully succeeded. I'll always reach one or two sessions, but other than that, my writing time just happens when it happens.
This month (and next month, and the month after that) I'm going to try something different. In the past I've tried to schedule hours based on when I thought I would be getting home and when I thought I would be waking up. My sleeping patterns are so erratic, as are my day to day patterns, that this didn't work out too well.
Instead of planning out specific times, this time around I'm going to try to plan out days. I'm going to decide what is going to get done each day, and a general idea of when I'm going to do it, but other than that, I'll leave it up to the flow.
You can see the beginnings of my 'schedule' here. As time goes by, I'll let you know how well I'm managing to follow it.
Do you schedule your writing time? Why or why not?
If you've been following my blog for a long time, you've probably seen my attempts to schedule my time. If you haven't, then you might have missed them. Long story short, in the last six months I've tried several times to schedule my writing, but I've never fully succeeded. I'll always reach one or two sessions, but other than that, my writing time just happens when it happens.
This month (and next month, and the month after that) I'm going to try something different. In the past I've tried to schedule hours based on when I thought I would be getting home and when I thought I would be waking up. My sleeping patterns are so erratic, as are my day to day patterns, that this didn't work out too well.
Instead of planning out specific times, this time around I'm going to try to plan out days. I'm going to decide what is going to get done each day, and a general idea of when I'm going to do it, but other than that, I'll leave it up to the flow.
You can see the beginnings of my 'schedule' here. As time goes by, I'll let you know how well I'm managing to follow it.
Do you schedule your writing time? Why or why not?
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