Archive for July 26th, 2010

One of the major challenges for part time writers is finding time to write, and even more so when things are busy in your real life.

With Alra, I am constantly writing notes down, considering plots, twists, character growth or degeneration and how they all intertwine with each other, this is a time consuming exercise.

In fact, most of the time I tend to stare blankly into my imagination, allowing my mind to subconsciencely create the story while on another level I try to piece together in words what is happening within  my mind.

This all takes time, and for me, I have to be alone with quietness dominating.

For the past few months this is not what I would call my usual circumstances.

I have moved country, I am now looking for work (I am not paid enough through my writing to quit my off line reliance on working for money) and basically running about doing stuff….. stuff that is not imagining or considering story lines and character reactions.

Lucky for me I have multiple chapters prewritten, but that is not the case with the blog posts.

ALL writing takes a certain degree of discipline, sometimes I have it, other times I dont.

Most times, even when I am not able to write, I am pondering the story, and craving another session of writing, I suppose it comes down to one small point….. I don’t write because I have to, I write because there is an inner compulsion, I don’t feel good when I don’t write.

So I guess I am lucky in a way as the motivation in internal and not forced by external pressures like a publisher wanting a book finished this week, although that would probably help me write even more…..

What this is about is a writer must write every day or the art will be lost.

Simple truth, hard fact.