I'm starting to run into similar problems. My wife was in culinary school when I began my book, which allowed me to plow through the first draft at a very regular pace (4-6 hours of writing per day). Now she's finished with school and working part time in a bakery, and her schedule mostly coincides with mine, so I'm lucky to get 2-3 decent writing days in per week. It's one of the reasons the revision is taking so long.
I tried taking the "at least 1 hour per day" approach, but found that when I reviewed what I had written during those times it was utter crap, usually leading to a complete rewrite on one of my longer work days. It seemed like wasted effort, but I'm very new at this. Nat On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2012, at 4:29 PM, jshkay wrote: > > > Thanks for the response Ray. I am trying to get into writing myself, > > and one of the big issues I've run into is time to write. I work 8-5, > > get home at 6, and then I've got my kid and all responsibilities > > associated with that. I think the most important thing is to try to > > write every day, even if it is only an hour at a time. Either way, it > > is good to hear what a professional writer does in an ideal situation. > > > You are correct. Discipline and habit are more important that occasional > bursts of many hours. One friend of mine got up an extra hour early to > work one hour before going to work every day. > > Best,R.E.F. > > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > > > -- Sent from my Crappy Laptop (tm) using a poor excuse for a web browser.
