How many hours a day do you write?
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Five. Two and a half in the morning, and then two and a half more after lunch and a long walk.
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Two pages. Plus research. Turns out to be roughly two to three hours a day. I'm hoping to get more writing time within the next couple of weeks, when we buy my teens their own computer. I often WANT to write after dinner, but I have trouble getting computer time then....the kids either need to use it for schoolwork or iTunes. I suspect it's more of the latter.
If I can get that second patch of time in, I'd write three, maybe four pages a day. I am pretty much wiped out mentally after those two pages, so who knows if anything I produce after that would even be worth keeping.
I really don't set my quota by the clock. I set it by the page.
SusanR
If I can get that second patch of time in, I'd write three, maybe four pages a day. I am pretty much wiped out mentally after those two pages, so who knows if anything I produce after that would even be worth keeping.
I really don't set my quota by the clock. I set it by the page.
SusanR
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Hours? Eh. Since I work a lot of hours here at work (blah), I'm not prone to keeping track of the time. I take a few minutes here, maybe an hour there, so it's hard to say.
I am writing on a more consistent basis, which is more than I could say in the past.
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Hours? You're kidding, right?
If I can string a half hour of constant writing I'm doing good.
Hours. That's a good one.
If I can string a half hour of constant writing I'm doing good.
Hours. That's a good one.
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Normally, two hours a day.
Mainly between 9:30-11:30 at night (after the family has gone to bed).
Course, lately, it's been writing class work rather than novels, but writing is writing is writing.
Somedays I get a little extra writing in if work is slow. Sometimes, I do stuff with the family and skip my evening writing.
But, as I said, normally, two hours a day.
Mainly between 9:30-11:30 at night (after the family has gone to bed).
Course, lately, it's been writing class work rather than novels, but writing is writing is writing.
Somedays I get a little extra writing in if work is slow. Sometimes, I do stuff with the family and skip my evening writing.
But, as I said, normally, two hours a day.
It depends on how much my little guy sleeps and how little I spend online.
Usually I can get anywhere from two to five hours of writing a day - unfortunately, it's not all at the same time or even the same time every day.
Take care. Good luck with making the time to write and your future writing endeavors.
Usually I can get anywhere from two to five hours of writing a day - unfortunately, it's not all at the same time or even the same time every day.
Take care. Good luck with making the time to write and your future writing endeavors.
One on a bad day, two on a good one. I can get a couple of thousand in that way; more if I'm editing rather than composing.
Poetry, well, I don't count the time I spend with that as I can write in my little notebook on the bus, at my dad's house, wherever...it's not as structured as my prose schedule.
Poetry, well, I don't count the time I spend with that as I can write in my little notebook on the bus, at my dad's house, wherever...it's not as structured as my prose schedule.
I have had stints of 16 hour writing days, unfortunately they might only fit into my schedule every 365 days
It depends on how I'm feeling physically. I try to write at least a chapter a day, which would roughly translate into an hour. Many times I will write four or five chapters in one day. Again, each chapter translates roughly into one hour for me.
Lately I've been really weak and haven't been able to sit in front of my keyboard very much. That, however, is changing as my body is starting to get back into the swing of things; I imagine I'll be writing two or three hours a day regularly pretty soon.
Lately I've been really weak and haven't been able to sit in front of my keyboard very much. That, however, is changing as my body is starting to get back into the swing of things; I imagine I'll be writing two or three hours a day regularly pretty soon.
Depends on how much other work I'm doing. The last few weeks, I've been lucky to hit half an hour a day. Late last year when I was between projects I was doing about 3 - 4.
Almost whenever I can! I can't do it too early or too late or else I get tired and my work suscks, but if I am into it, thou shalt have to remove the keyboard from my cold dead fingers!
Muhahaha!
Muhahaha!
By-the-by do you guys actually say to yourselves, "Okay, I have to work for three hours." That sounds kind of annoying. Am I the only one who just does it whenever the urge calls me?
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Do you only go to work when the urge calls you?
This aside, the urge calls when I tell it to call, and writing is a habit. And if the urge doesn't call me, I'll call it. My muse had better show up each and every time I sit down to write. My muse knows where I'll be, and when I'll be there, and if he isn't there at the same time I am, his butt gets fired.
I never say "Okay, I have to write five hours today." I do say, "Yes, I get to write five hours today." I enjoy writing. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't be a writer. Writing for five hours isn't a punishment, it's a reward.
And since I am a writer by choice, I do those things most likely to guarantee success, and regular writing is one of those things. The more you write, the better you get. The more you write, the more you produce. The more you write, the faster you get the million words of garbage out of your system.
Writers write, and the one thing most successful writers have in common is the desire, or the discipline, to write early and often. There are many things I do because I have to do them, but writing is something I do because I want to do it.
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Do you only go to work when the urge calls you?
This aside, the urge calls when I tell it to call, and writing is a habit. And if the urge doesn't call me, I'll call it. My muse had better show up each and every time I sit down to write. My muse knows where I'll be, and when I'll be there, and if he isn't there at the same time I am, his butt gets fired.
I never say "Okay, I have to write five hours today." I do say, "Yes, I get to write five hours today." I enjoy writing. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't be a writer. Writing for five hours isn't a punishment, it's a reward.
And since I am a writer by choice, I do those things most likely to guarantee success, and regular writing is one of those things. The more you write, the better you get. The more you write, the more you produce. The more you write, the faster you get the million words of garbage out of your system.
Writers write, and the one thing most successful writers have in common is the desire, or the discipline, to write early and often. There are many things I do because I have to do them, but writing is something I do because I want to do it.
Was I giving the impression that I didn't like to write, because if I did I apologize..... I love to write. I've been doing it since I was eight and before the I was playing games where I was a mother or an indian and creating my own worlds and stories with barbies. I do sit down, but the muse doesn't always come exactly when I want it to, which is something I should work on. Sometimes I really feel something and I have to write though. But I have never said, okay I need to write five pages today.
Novilia said:
It is annoying. And frankly, I almost always have to make myself start. And yes, I make myself write two pages of new material every day.
I'm with Dorothy Parker on this one, though. I hate writing. I love having written.
SusanR
SusanR said:
I love writing, frankly. It's the re-writing that I can't stand.
Maybe that's why my present WIP is coming along so slowly. I'm on my second re-write....
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I write on and off all day. SOmetimes I get pages and pages done. Sometimes I get nothing worthwhile done. I always write something.
I love writing, but I have to force myself to write in order for the pieces to flow together, and that's the hard part. Revision is a snape for me. If only I could just pour everything out without fear that I'd screwed everything up and then resolve to fix it tomorrow, I'd be a published novelist by now.
I love writing, but I have to force myself to write in order for the pieces to flow together, and that's the hard part. Revision is a snape for me. If only I could just pour everything out without fear that I'd screwed everything up and then resolve to fix it tomorrow, I'd be a published novelist by now.
Between 6 and 10 hours a day.
yesterday as an example; Business plan revision, 4 hours. Risk assessment and safe system of work for fork trucks, 1 hour. Write mission statement, 1 hour. Rewrite production schedule method statement, 2 hours. Flow chart to suit, 1 hour. Then, when I get home, website copy revision, rewriting to include key words, 2 hours.
Or did you mean fiction. Yeah, I shoehorn that in sometimes.
Don't you guys have day-jobs?
yesterday as an example; Business plan revision, 4 hours. Risk assessment and safe system of work for fork trucks, 1 hour. Write mission statement, 1 hour. Rewrite production schedule method statement, 2 hours. Flow chart to suit, 1 hour. Then, when I get home, website copy revision, rewriting to include key words, 2 hours.
Or did you mean fiction. Yeah, I shoehorn that in sometimes.
Don't you guys have day-jobs?
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Sort of.
I'm a mostly-retired physician. I take emergency call for a nearby rural hospital, so one night a week and one or two weekends a month, I'm available by phone. I might have to go in on the weekend and see a patient or two. So I basically work from home nights and weekends.
When I first started writing my novel, I sat and worked for hours on end, and my end--rear end--suffered for it. I gained 13 pounds over the course of 250 pages. Now I write for two hours, then go to the gym. I'm almost done losing the weight I gained.
No butts about it, it's a lot of sitting.
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