Gahhhh - I need to find the time!

By Silver Penny · Aug 5, 2009 · ·
  1. Seriously...what does it have to take to get me to get back into writing? Granted I have been writing other things, journals on my recent trip to the mountains, long e-mails to a friend who always seems to be on Facebook, replies to others on my running forum. But I don't seem to have the creative spirit I once had.

    Really, last November I completed 52,000 words for the NaNoWriMo contest. I figured I'd get right on that puppy again and start editing it...but noooooooooooo....it sits in limbo on a memory stick, haunting me each time I plug it into the computer to retrieve some other file. I think the time issue is my biggest. I seem to find time to mountain bike, to run, to work out, to spend time with my boys, to camp, to hang out with the BF....I should slate in time to write, but I find that when I'm pressured like that the creative spark fizzles out. I get the urge to write at stupid times (like when I'm in the middle of something important at work, or when I'm driving somewhere and won't arrive for another hour, or when I'm in the middle of a long run - yeah I carry a pen & paper with me and stuff it in my running bra;))

    Maybe it's just a phase and this, too, will pass...I guess it's a matter of being patient with myself. It will come back...right?!?!?!

Comments

  1. jonathan hernandez13
    I dont think that time is the important thing, theres plenty of time in a day to write, all it takes is twenty minutes or so to write a page or so and you can have several novels done in a year.

    Writing is tough because it takes commitment, discipline, and routine. If some habit breaks the writing habit it can be hard to get back into it. My worst habit is abandoning a project midway when its unfinished and hopping onto another like a burning or sinking ship.

    Carrying around a pad of paper and a pen is a good habit for a writer, because if an idea strikes you you can jot it down. Unfortunately, if you dont do anything with the idea you may end up like me, with several notebooks full of plot details, bits of dialogue that sounded cool to me at the time, sketches, info charts, etc. Until I actually do something with all that data its just data that Ive accumulated that means nothing to anyone besides me and is unpublishable.

    Its up to us to make it happen, if you dont find the time, you need to make the time. If you cant set asside twenty minutes of your day asside to write, then reorganize your daily schedule, because it is killing your writing.
  2. Rumpole40k
    Yes, it will. It's like two lovers who swear this is the last time and after this final good bye they will return and remain faithful to their spouces. Somehow they always find each other again. (I'm usually less flowery, chock it up to the fact that I haen't had coffee yet.)
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  4. Silver Penny
    I think inside I realize that. A part of me is also scared. I used to write all the time when I was in high school (mostly depressing poems) and then again before I was married. After the marriage ended I began writing again. It's almost as if my most productive work comes from sad events in my life...I must be crazy but it's a lot harder for me to write anything when I am happy. And I am really happy these day...go figure!
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