Creating a Writer's Life
If you want to catch a fish, you go into the water and fish.
If you want to write a book, you sit yourself down and write.
Sit down and write
If there's anything you really care about doing, any goal that you've set for yourself, any dream you want to pursue, you must make time for it. You must set up everything in your life to make it possible.
Hundreds of books have been written on how to create a writer's life. Some are helpful, some are inspiring, but it's possible to spend so much time studying how to be a writer, that you never actually get to the writing itself.
The crucial point is that if you want to be a writer, you need to get on with writing. You need to sit yourself down and write.
But there are a few things you can do to make it easier to help you get to that point.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Where will you write?
Where are you least distracted?
Maya Angelou
What is your best routine?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amy Tan
Paolo Coehlo
Set Yourself Up for Success
Consider your environment and decide what works best for you
What is the physical space that is most conducive to you working?
Where are you most comfortable?
What visual stimulus do you have around you that either distracts you or inspires you?
What sounds help you concentrate or serve to block out other noise?
What temperature helps you stay focused (instead of putting you to sleep?)
What tools support your writing process the best? (Pen and paper or computer?)
What routine helps you get into your writing world faster?
Robert Frost
Nothing will work unless you do.
― Maya Angelou