Congratulations. You've got a great writing idea. Alas, you also have a full-time job, kids, and a commuting schedule. Or possibly you're still in school and you have loads of homework. How can you possibly find the time to write amidst all this craziness?
First, if you're having problem fitting writing into your life, you need to funds your time. I propose you do a "time audit." This means that, over the course of a day or a few days, or even a week, you track the estimate of time you spend doing all you do throughout the day (or days or week). Take single note of how much time you spend watching Tv, playing sports, sleeping, talking on the phone to your friends, playing diamond or other computer games, noodling nearby on the Internet, reading magazines, newspapers, or the latest novel--you get the picture. Your task is to come to be aware of where in your life you are frittering away critical minutes and energy.
Although these activities are pleasurable and freedom is important, couldn't you decrease the total estimate of time you spend on leisure, and give yourself the gift of those same moments to write? My personal palpate and my notice of my clients has shown that nine times out of ten the reply to this question is a resounding yes.
It is helpful to look at a project, such as writing a book, in a pragmatic, mathematical way. Although the time it takes to write a book may seem daunting at first, and loom large in your imagination, in fact it is a finite performance with a beginning and an end. Even when a field is complex, if you're well organized and at least moderately disciplined it is going to be a manageable task.
It is potential to explore and draft a 160-page book in approximately 200 hours. Therefore, if you allot yourself only one hour per day to writing or commit to completing one part per week, you will be able to faultless your book in under a year--with fullness of time left for revisions. Here are some important numbers to keep in mind: a typeset page is about 350 words, so a 160-page book contains about 60,000 words. So, let's say you had ten 6,000-word chapters to write. That breaks down to about 1,000 words a day. Break your book project down into doable chunks, which you can faultless if you give yourself undivided focus for relatively short periods of time.
You may find that it takes a puny bit of diligence and ingenuity to create undivided focus for your writing time. For example, you may have to negotiate for some privacy with your house and friends. You may have to get up an hour earlier so you can write when every person else is asleep. Or lock the door and turn off the phone when you write. Personally, I put the following outgoing message on my answering motor when I am writing: "Hi, this is Stephanie. It's Monday and I'm in writing retreat. This means that I'm not picking up the phone. Leave me a message and I'll return it within 24 hours." anything you find you need to do in order to safe your writing time, do it!
Once you have carved out the time in which to write, think how to best go about the writing itself. One way to arrival a book project is to write each part as a blog, and then weave all of these blog entries together to form the book. The idea here is to write first and edit later. It's much easier to get your material down on paper (or on computer, as the case may be) and then refine it, rather than editing as you go. This is particularly true if you're a perfectionist and can slow yourself down by trying to get every sentence exactly right the first time around.
Keep in mind that you also have the selection of hiring an editor or a ghostwriter to do the editing and refining for you after you have created your first draft.
One last thing: if you're having problem dropping into writing mode, understand that writing is something you get best at the more you do it--especially if you do it regularly. So, even if you can only eke out a integrate of sentences on a given day, give yourself the full hour of time to continue trying to write. You're training your mind to focus on your project. Like a wild animal, it needs to be tamed. This is sort of like meditation. If you have it in your schedule that the first thing you do at the start of the day is to write for an hour, you'll come to expect it and you won't resist it so much.
See what happens when you apply these tools to your book project. I have no doubt that you will make huge advance with your writing, institute confidence, and then what once seemed an impossible dream will come to be a reality. Good luck and have fun.
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