Managing Your Time

Hey everyone!

As you guessed it were talking about managing your time. Now I know for at least my

experience managing my time while I’m writing gets a bit absurd. When I first started

writing I literally kicked everyone out of my house or release the corner of my house

so that I would not hear a peep. However, in the years that I have been writing has

become a sobering idea to work around others schedule.

This has been a huge learning curve for me. I not only have to manage my time

writing but I also have to understand and respect the schedules that are around me on

a daily. I used to write in spurts or as I go because at one time, I had all my children

and my house. Now are the days that it’s quiet I still have to manage my time in some

way or form.

I had to set a time frame for just my writing and sometimes it never worked. I seem to

be always distracted and I had to learn to put away like my phone, tablet and anything

else that was an electronic besides my laptop. At first, I was just writing to be writing

and not really getting anywhere.

Then I guess you would say an epiphany came to me when I decided actually when I

wanted to write a book and not just any book; a book of discovery in so many words.

I say the discovery because I was still trying to figure out who I was and how I can

manage my life as a writer/author. Here are some things I decided to do to manage

my time while I was writing.

There is always a known fact that you have to get away with all the distractions

around you so that you can focus on what you’re doing. Truly I understand when a

person is really busy and there just seems there’s not enough time in the world to

write. However, in my little times that I would get I began to write and write a lot like

I jotted down everything I could think of until my brain felt like he was about to

explode. I find that writing at night when everyone’s of sleep is the best time I could

write.

I started schedule per five days straight during the week and started a timeframe. So,

before I started to write on this schedule, I made sure that I had everything ready

right in front of me so they wouldn’t move and I just wrote.

I chose a six-hour timeline but also took three breaks in between. For every two hours

I wrote I took thirty minutes to relax, and to pull away from the screen so that my

fingers to relax for the next two hours I would write. I did this every day for weeks on

end until yes, even I burnt myself out. Now I can’t say this is good for everybody but

it did help me focus more on what I was wanting to say or convey as a writer.

I learned that if I listen to classical music while writing it wasn’t a dictation of sorts

and I didn’t feel like it was like a chore as I was enjoying it more. Although the fun

ring for me was when I started to set mini goals such as writing one chapter a day

which led into two chapters a day. However, I haven’t push myself to write three

chapters a day and think it’s not realistic just for me.

The best advice I can give you for managing your time allow yourself to have a reward

could be small and minute and just as we give children for good behavior so shall we.

I hope this has helped you today on your path for writing your truths and if for

any reason you have more questions, please feel free to ask me at my author’s

inbox @ https://www.facebook.com/authormarinaobrix/

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