A Place and Time to Write

You need a plan

Let’s say you have clear answers to the first of the question you have to think through: “Why do I write?”

Second, you have searched for inspiration and ideas for writing.

You’ve got a writing idea; you are ready to start. You know why you want to write. You know what you want to write.

Then the next you need to know is how to get started writing.

You need a plan:

Time

• When to start writing?
• Plan for how much time you‘ve got for writing.
• Plan your different writing sessions. For instance, you will work 3 hours on Monday morning

The best time for creative writing is when you are in a moment of the day after rest. For most people, the best part of the day will be in the morning.

If you are taken by work five days a week this may seem very difficult, and you may not have the possibility to work on your writing project more than two days, on Saturday and Sunday morning.

This is okay, because you, of course, will have to adapt your writing ambitions to what is possible in your life, with all the other activities you have to take care of.

Place

• Where can you write?
• Can you work in your home?
• Do you have to find a place outside the apartment or the house where you live?

Find a place where you can sit down with your notebook, your phone or your computer. And write! Write whenever you are inspired, whenever you feel that there is something you have to take care of. Whenever words, sentences, images that you must not forget or loose come to your mind.

It is important to establish good writing habits. This goes for the time when you write as well as places where you write.

You need to organize yourself, in order to have enough of both time and space to write without being interrupted.