I will admit: it is difficult to find time to write.
For anyone. No matter what their situation.
Last week, a professor that I respect and admire came to one of my classes as a guest lecturer. They said (and I'm paraphrasing here): you have to write every day, even if it's only 15 or 20 minutes, because, if you don't, you forget where you were and what you were doing and you have to spend a lot of time getting re-caught-up on the project. And that wastes writing time.
They were 100% right.
Everyone in the world is given the exact same number of minutes in a day. If some people seem to accomplish more in a given day, I suspect that it's because they make different choices about how to spend their time.
I get needing down time. I get needing time to just space out. But if you want to finish a big writing project: class paper, journal article, thesis, dissertation, book, or anything else - you have to learn to manage your time in such a way that you give yourself time to write. Every day.
Every. Single. Day.
Erma Bombeck, one of my literary heroes, wrote in her bedroom, using a door that her husband had laid across two saw-horses for a desk. You don't need a fancy set-up, you just need to be doggedly determined.
Thanks for reminding me of that, Professor.
Go forth and write!
For anyone. No matter what their situation.
Last week, a professor that I respect and admire came to one of my classes as a guest lecturer. They said (and I'm paraphrasing here): you have to write every day, even if it's only 15 or 20 minutes, because, if you don't, you forget where you were and what you were doing and you have to spend a lot of time getting re-caught-up on the project. And that wastes writing time.
They were 100% right.
Everyone in the world is given the exact same number of minutes in a day. If some people seem to accomplish more in a given day, I suspect that it's because they make different choices about how to spend their time.
I get needing down time. I get needing time to just space out. But if you want to finish a big writing project: class paper, journal article, thesis, dissertation, book, or anything else - you have to learn to manage your time in such a way that you give yourself time to write. Every day.
Every. Single. Day.
Erma Bombeck, one of my literary heroes, wrote in her bedroom, using a door that her husband had laid across two saw-horses for a desk. You don't need a fancy set-up, you just need to be doggedly determined.
Thanks for reminding me of that, Professor.
Go forth and write!