Do you wish you had the time to do the writing you want to do, but can’t, because things keep on happening, and stop you from being able to settle in and get that writing done?
Yeah, life, it just gets in the way like that doesn’t it? Or is it you lack of focus and inability to make time for the writing? I confess, I let life get in the way of my writing far more often than I should.
LIFE:
Visitors,
television,
eating,
shopping,
going to meetings.
Only one of these things will lead to more writing getting done, the rest are things that get in the way of my writing, that I supposedly really want to do.
I just don’t want it hard enough, obviously, because if it was really so important to me, I’d get on and do it! Does this sound like your life sometimes too? If you have any tricks to stay with the so called important writing I’d love to hear what works for you!
As I indicated, one of the things on my list will in fact lead to more writing getting done. That thing is going to meetings. But that only works if the meeting is the ones I have in Gawler every Thursday afternoon, my writing group meeting.
At our meeting, we report on the writing related things we’d done in the week past, and we read our homework, which will be a response to a writing prompt. And then at the meeting, we will do a writing exercise, which will involve responding to another writing prompt.
At our writing group meetings, we try to keep away from the boring ordinary day to day fluff and guff, and stick with writing related news, because we are writers/poets/bloggers, and our writing is important enough to us to get on and do it, at the group meetings, and with the homework to present there too.
If I wasn’t a member of this great group, I might not get anywhere near as much writing done, and I definitely suggest getting involved with such a group, if you want to begin to take your own writing more seriously, at least for the writing group meeting anyway. And if you can’t find such a meeting, do what I did, start a writing group, and hold the meeting yourself.
Sometimes at the beginning there were very few people there, and in fact sometimes I was the only one there, but writing always got done. Because that’s what writing groups are for, writing!
Make your Writing Group get in the way of Life for a change!
But of course, life is what gives you things to think about, and write about. The trick as I see it, is to think on life, get ideas and thoughts happening in your head, and then you’ll have a broader range of things to write about!
The image below is of my most recent poetry collection, where I touch on many of the things I’ve thought about in response to my lived life!
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