It’s time for another IWSG post. IWSG aka Insecure
Writers Support Group is a online group of writers, we post on the first
Wednesday of every month. IWSG posts give us a chance to discuss all our
writing related worries, anxieties, fears and insecurities. Other writers who
share similar worries help us out with their advice and tips. Check out the IWSG website for amazing writing tips. To read the other IWSG posts, click here.
We must thank Ninja Captain Alex J Cavanaugh (author
of the Amazon Bestsellers: CassaStar, CassaStorm, CassaFire and Dragon of the
Stars) for starting this awesome group. With IWSG, Amazing and Adorable Alex
has ensured that we writers have a buffer system to let off all our writing stress
and worries. So, if you see writers trawling the cyberspace, with a spring in
their steps, thank Alex for it.
The IWSG question
of this month is ‘How do you find the time to write in your busy day?’
Frankly speaking there are days when I just don’t find
the time to write, I need to pull that precious time out of my life. Till last
year when I was teaching creative writing in college (though it was only part
time), it would take me nearly one and a half hours to commute to and fro, add
to that the teaching time, the time I would need to prepare for my classes and
the time required to correct those assignments, more than half my day would
slip away from me, leaving me no energy to do anything else. Added to this was
all the free-lance feature writing and book reviews I did for the newspapers.
To this I would also add my blogging. That left me with very little time to
actually work on my books. I realized then that I was also compromising on my
reading.
That’s when I realized I needed a break from college. And
features writing (though I still do book reviews for the newspapers.) A
separation from both these activities has freed up my time leaving me with more
time to actually write my books. And read a few.
I have realized that we writers need to wage a war with
so many activities to get a little time to write. I have also sacrificed TV for
writing and reading. I just see half an hour of one show, Monday to Friday.
That’s it. I have reduced many activities to find more time to write and
research for my books.
