Comments on: Where do you find your time to write?

By: Editor

Editor — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:59:20 +0000

I admire your determination to make room for writing! All the best.

Raquel

By: scott

scott — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:39:47 +0000

I just got out of the military with a little bulge in my bank account so I’m taking a couple of months to do some writing. Besides working out and reading fiction, I don’t do much else but write.

By: Ryan Sayles

Ryan Sayles — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:12:32 +0000

My job usually has me working for an hour or two in a row with an hour off. Then another hour on, hour off until the work day is over. I stuff my laptop into a huge backpack I got in the military and pull it out when there’s nothing going on. No one cares; most others sit and watch TV or check their MySpace pages. At home with a wife, a toddler and an infant I’m needed for other things, but at the job, an hour off is an hour off. It’s quiet and private, which just so happen to be my two biggest requirements to write. I’ve written 25,000 words in about 30 days, so I can’t complain. Actually, now that I’m writing the word count I’m astounded. I guess I love my job.

By: Casey Quinn

Casey Quinn — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:37:22 +0000

@Daryl: Must be exhausting though to find the time. Writing late at night knowing you need to wake up early and repeat. It is great that you keep at it as much as you do!

@Dave: I agree laptops do help in making the time. It is there, takes away the excuse of not doing it for sure and you do not need anything special installed, just basic stuff to write. I have a laptop I use at home, perhaps i will start bringing it more around with me and put away my marble notebook filled with notes i will never re read

By: Dave Hambidge

Dave Hambidge — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:38:51 +0000

For the last 10 years I worked sort of half-time as a medicolegal psychiatrist in NW England.

Doodling and scribbling (the 2 file names on my laptop for where I deposit them) happened in the late afternoon/early evening for up to 2 hours.

BUT, no kids and a very supportive wife, whom I happened to employ as administrator in the day job, so she had to do what I said (as if!).

ALSO, we live a European ‘continental’ lifestyle with about 2 hours sleep each afternoon. So early to bed (2300 ish) and rise (0715 ish) as both of us are old (mid50’s) and troubled by illhealth.

So, in my/our situation, the time has to be made around the other demands of life, as holds for all of us. Copy-typing of old hand written work is dead-boring and their is more to life.

So, force the time and invest in a cheap small laptop or one of these new (to UK) handheld computers or a script tablet (copies your handwritten onto computer). Yes, they cost dosh but combined with regular time they are worth their expense (and regular backup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Phew. Time for bed now. HAND and KUTGW

By: daryl

daryl — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:31:17 +0000

when the children go to bed, it’s time to play.