Rituals
make up a good portion of our writing/artistic life. We feel comfort in
sticking to rituals that help us achieve our goals. But sometimes life interferes
with the routines we would like to maintain.
This
weekend I had an amazing rally from my writer friends on Facebook (you know who
you are) who offered words of comfort and advice, most of which was to keep
writing no matter what.
As
writers we all have our struggles to find time to write amidst the many
responsibilities that pull at us. We have people we love that need our time, and
responsibilities to other endeavors in our life like jobs or school, or maybe health
issues that interfere with how much time we can spend on writing. Our fictional
world pulls at us to be written down, and we need time and quiet to get into
our imagination, formulate our new scenarios and write them out (at least I
need quiet—some people have their favorite music).
So, what do we do to get to the writing? I decided to highlight a blog post that
offers the rituals, routines and habits of our more famous writers so you can
draw inspiration from them if you need it-or just in case you're just curious.
I could relate to the routines of several writers/artists but found that I have my own routine that
works best to get things rolling along smoothly for me:
·
Get up between 4-5
am and read/meditate/jot down ideas then sometimes, go back to
bed.
·
Get up again around 7-8
am , have coffee & toast.
·
I do the daily Sodoku while catching news on TV,
and read a few funnies and the artist/movies section of the newspaper to see
what’s going on in the city of interest to me.
·
Dress, walk the dogs and then begin working on
writing. I’m into it until I unplug-sometimes at noon and
sometimes not until around 4 pm, depending on what interruptions are bound to intrude, or shopping that needs to be done.
Do
you have a writing routine? Care to share it? How consistent are you in keeping
to it?
