Tag: writing routines

When A Writer Has “All The Time In The World”

 

When you’re retired, or no longer have, or need the day job that was standing in your way of “writing the novel” you wake up each morning knowing you have “all the time in the world” to get to your laptop or yellow legal pad.

That’s the first mistake you make because of course other things get in the way, and suddenly it’s 6 p.m. And you don’t have all the time in the world because now it’s time for cocktails, and another day has flown by and you didn’t write a single word! Continue reading “When A Writer Has “All The Time In The World””

How To Stick To A Writing Routine When You’re NOT A Famous Author

Literary gossip has it that William Faulkner chopped off the bottom of his study door and had all his meals passed to him under the door when he was writing;  poet and playwright, Edna Vincent Millay wrote in a cottage on her property, and hung a white flag out of the window to get her husband’s attention whenever she needed something. Continue reading “How To Stick To A Writing Routine When You’re NOT A Famous Author”