If you’re about to embark on a writing project, consider it a journey. And like any good vacation or trip, you’re going to clear some time on your schedule and grab a seat on a plane.
Finding your writing space is integral to completing projects. Space, in this sense, is both temporal and spacial.
Writing Time
Find what time of the day suits your writing practice best. While most people are morning writers or night writers (not Knight Riders), there are also lunch writers and afternoon writers.Establishing a time to write depends on when you feel like writing. When does that inspiration hit? When do the words flow best?
A lot, though, depends on your schedule, though. You might have to be a after-I-put-the-kids-to-bed writer, or a 15-minutes-before-I-start-to-work writer. Some would-be writers believe that if they don’t have eight hours to plow through their prose, they can’t be a writer. That’s wrong. If you only have five minutes a day, take it. It may mean that it takes you longer to complete a project, but you’ll be surprised at how much material you can accumulate with steady, passionate (but short) practice over time.
Writing Space
Once you have time to write, find a place to write.
It could be a quiet corner in your house. It could be your home office. It could be on your deck or porch. And, thanks to wireless internet technology, it could be on a crowded street corner.
Some writers like crowded, noisy space. Some need complete quiet. Make sure you consider these factors as your deciding where you want to carve out your writing space. As with writing time, experiment with a few spaces. Loud. Cluttered. Quiet. Neat. (And maybe a combination of a few!)
And let the journey begin…