Comments on: Finding time to write

By: Ing

Ing — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:56:18 +0000

‘fraid I’m no Jack London.

By: Ing

Ing — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:55:56 +0000

“How much of your story could you have written if you hadn’t spent that time on your blog complaining about not having any time to write?”

Ouch. (Right where it hurts!)

Very true, though. There’s not much validity in complaints about having no time to write if it’s obvious that significant time has been spent writing blog posts. For me, at least, it’s a matter of what *kind* of writing, not whether I’m writing (seems I can’t *not* write). At the end of the day I find it’s difficult to summon enough mental energy to do the heavy lifting of fiction writing, while blogging is usually just low-effort playing around. But sometimes I wonder how much of my blogging is just a way to avoid the more difficult aspects of writing.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:22:08 +0000

Kel, you naughty girl. If I drank, I’d drink with you.

Geez, we do tend to forget what those who went before us sacrificed for their art.

By: Philip B Persinger

Philip B Persinger — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:04:57 +0000

My role model has always been Jack London. He got up two hours early to write — before stoking coal for ten.

By: RJ Keller

RJ Keller — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:17:21 +0000

Sometimes I feel like I’m pounding out each word like it’s a chore. That’s when I step away, drink a pint or two of Jim Beam, then sit back in front of the screen.

(I jest.)

By: MoJo

MoJo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:12:12 +0000

Well, when you put it like that, sneezing v sinus surgery, I can see the point.

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:09:56 +0000

I get you and agree with you, but I can’t get my brain aligned with my novel in the seconds it takes to crank out a blogpost. Writing a blogpost is like sneezing. Writing a novel is like sinus surgery.

That said, manage your freaking time, people.