MEShammas

Guitar, SAT stuff, school, homework, tests, friends, weightlifting, soccer, swimming, basketball, girlfriend, vacations, chores, and then my small segment of time to myself....

Hard to find time! How do you guys find time to write? (I usually seem to just write whenever I feel like it...which isn't steady but works just as well. Still, I wanna' be able to have a more structured type of work.)

wmd

you have time to write... "my small segment of time to myself."

It might not be much, but there it is.

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Writer Kitten

I have a very strict regimen that I follow. It's the only way that I can find time enough to do everything. It also includes unplugging my modem for a time each day. Can't use the internet as a distraction if I can't access it.

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My internet published works.

How I help support myself from home.

Hopeful_Author

I try to get in an hour a day at least so I feel like I've made some progress, but if I don't well, that's life. My son takes up a lot of my time so I try to jot it down on paper if I can't get to the computer. Like I said, every little bit helps and is progress.

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enron1982

Well why are you wasting your time posting this thread? Shouldn't you be using that time to write?

MEShammas

Good point .

meldy

ROFLMAO

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I thought about building you a raft to survive the river of tears I am crying for you but the worlds smallest violins just arent a realible source of lumber. And that cross you are nailing yourself to seems bouyant enough anyway- G. House.

Lost in Some Story

MEShammas, only one thing you can do. Stop sleeping. You'll die within the year, but you'll put out some genius prose in the process.

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"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior."
Henry David Thoreau

ClancyBoy

Make sure your writing place has no internet access. I would be writing now if not for the goddamn internet.

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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.

Shawn

You need that time to study for ACTs, PSATs, and any AP exams you might need to take. It may seem like a big sacrifice now, but it will give you much more in return.

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wmd

aint that the truth

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Hobbes

Agreed; it's *far* better than TV, but you can waste just as much time surfing the net as you can surfing the tube.

Sayuri007

I pretty much carry a notebook around with me that will fit into my purse, then whenever i get a free moment, i write.

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"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to become his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self" -Confucius

Merforga

i used to carry a spiral notebook with me back in HS and would write there anytime i had the chance too. Now in college i use a binder for the majority of my classes so i have the back part sectioned off for my writing. Works well.

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" Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great." ~ Mark Twain

Johnna

I put off homework to write... Now I think of it, I put off pretty much everything to write.

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