ISWG: How Do You Find Time to Write in Your Busy Day?

Hope this ISWG post finds everyone well. This month our question was my title: how do you find time to write in your busy day?

Personally, I schedule in my writing since I work a 30 to 36 hour work week.  Scribble time is always in the morning except when I'm off, then I flip it to the evening so I can run some errands  and a get nap in.

Here's what my schedule looks like 5 days a week.

5 AM Get out of bed and take out dogs
5:30 AM Devotion and prayer
6 AM Breakfast
6:30 AM Breakfast for the dogs
7 AM Walk the dogs
7:30 AM Take myself for a walk
8 - 9 AM A house chore- I clean one room a day
10 AM - 12 NOON- I shoot for a 1000 words

From 12:30 to 2 PM, I'm eating lunch and getting ready for work.

Saturday evenings are used to do research for my articles on Freedom Nation News (which I've been slacking on lately) and Sunday evenings are for writing my blogs. And somewhere between all this stuff, I'm reading a book. If I didn't have a schedule, I can't say I would stick to anything.

PROJECT UPDATE: The Lie is halfway done. It's the project I've been working on. That's why I've hardly been around.

Here's the opening line just for fun:

“I’m telling you, she’s not normal,” my mom said, the umpteenth time she’d made that accusation since my divorce from my first husband. “Her vagina looks like a freight train went right through it.”

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Hugs and chocolate, 

Shelly

ISWG: Deadlines

Hi, everyone!

Been busy writing up a storm the last several week and not blogging. A novel has taken over my life.

 I'm at chapter 15 in The Lie or A Grandmother's Lie. These are my working titles. It's going smoothly so far. And as you've probably noticed, I've not been around much not even to comment. August 29th is my deadline.

Sometimes as writers we need to focus on our projects and get them done. I don't have the luxury of just staying home and writing all day. So I block out time. Whether an hour or two. The schedule is set without detours, which means little time to goof off on social media or write my blogs.

Today, I encourage you to tie up your loose ends and finish your writing projects. Cyber-space can wait for you. It will still be here when you get done.

How do you all handle your goals and deadlines? Do you give up blogging for a while? All social media?

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Have a great day, all!

Hugs and chocolate,
Shelly

ISWG: Re-Organizing

Yup. Like this post is titled, I'm reorganizing a bit. Family stuff keeps getting in my way. If you haven't noticed, I've not been posting too terribly much as of late.

Yes. I'm still going to write and keep blogging. But sometimes I won't be around. Family and novel writing come first. My blog and blog-visiting is for fun. Occassionally, I do a Vlog on YouTube. I really wished I had more hours in a day. I'm pretty sure a lot of you feel the same.

Also, I'm a slow writer as well as a reader. Sometimes I'm working on more than one project. Distracting, right? I drive myself crazy at times with all that I do. How about you?

So I have a new schedule to adhere to. (I hope I can do it, too.)

5:45 AM rise and shine
6-7 AM Devotion
7:30 AM Breakfast
8 AM Workout
8:30 AM Shower
9-11:30 AM Write my little heart out
11:30-12:00 PM Check emails, read some
Blogs
12:30 PM Lunch and watch Vlogs
1 PM Get ready for work
2 PM Leave the house for work
3-9 PM At the Salon

On my days off, clean upstairs or downstairs. Most Saturday and Sunday evenings will be used for writing blogs and creating Vlogs. It all depends on what is happening.

So how are all of you juggling the time to write? Blog? Clean?

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Hugs and chocolate, all!
Shelly