Finding time to write

Hello to all!

Ever wondered how a book gets written? Well, of course you would. You have every intentions of writing one yourself, haven't you? Which is why you are reading this grasshopper of a blog.

There really is not standard way of writing a book. Some writers work for several hours in the morning, and revise it in the afternoon. Some spend the morning researching, then the afternoon putting it together. It really doesn't matter, so long as you actually put words on paper, or on your computer's face.

So you haven't got the time to sit down and devote long chunks of time to writing. You cannot see how you can possibly squeeze even five minutes out of your busy schedule. Well, one person who managed to do this on a regular basis, when he was at work, no less, Is Vincent Ros.  www.TenaciousWriter.com. This man amazes me with the ways he has come up to find time to write. A last piece of his tells how he decided to write a book, come hell or high water, and made time to write.

He wrote at work. No, not in a way that would get you fired immediately. He stole half an hour from his lunch break, finding sneaky little bolt holes while he was on lunch and free-wring for the first or last part of the lunch-break. He really does deserve credit for his ingenuity. it's a good read, and he also gives ten tips as to how you can use that half-hour.

We ALL can find a spare five minutes if we really try. The often up to twenty minutes we wait for a doctor's appointment or a dental one can be utilized, instead of reading stale old magazines. If the surgeries have creches, put your children into these, and watch them while writing.

A laptop is rather bulky in these situations. Simply take a notepad and several pens or pencils in your bag and write. Develop characters, scenes, places and locations. I once grew a whole city while waiting for one of my ruder colleagues to finish what she was doing. To say it was fun was not the half of it. And I wasn't even cranky at her for delaying my own projects. it cost nothing but a little time and I had that, instead of a very boring meeting, gratis. The meeting was shorter than expected, too, because we needed to make up the time, which was a bonus!

So take a look around for where you can find a few spare minutes and determine how to put it to good use with your writing. Even if you only come up with a laundry list of names and places, it's a start, and, if you do this every time, you will soon have all the basics, outline and plan for your book.