Weekend Writing

[jack30341]

Weekends are my opportunity to focus more on writing, as I'm not having to share focus with a day job.

Do others ever go into a weekend with writing goals? Say, 5k words by Sunday at 5 pm?

Or, do you find it better to just say, like, I'll get four hours in on Saturday, and three on Sunday?

I'm always torn between trying to crank out words, or think of it as time-based and not worry if I'm getting words, so long as I make creative progress.

Curious to hear what others think.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I try to write something every night, but most gets written in the mornings, 30 - 45 minutes at a time. Bite sized pieces. It all adds up. Weekends make no difference, just changes what's "busy."

 

[NotWise]

Weekends are usually the worst times for me to write. I have too many distractions and too many other things I need to get done.

 

[yowser]

For some of us writing for more than a couple hours at a time is exhausting. I far prefer to write a little every day (even twenty minutes can be productive), although an awful lot of my 'writing' goes on in my head, continually. It is just setting the stage for letting the 'brain dump' occur that matters.

Even with the busiest work week, I can usually find half an hour to do something, and if I don't write regularly, things don't go so well...

 

[KeithD]

There's been virtually no difference between a weekday and weekend day for me for twenty-three years.

 

[SamScribble]

I write pretty much every day; have done so since about 1960.

 

[jack30341]

There's been virtually no difference between a weekday and weekend day for me for twenty-three years.

This would be my dream scenario.

 

[jack30341]

I write pretty much every day; have done so since about 1960.

Wow.

Like using a muscle, isn't it?

I would be worried if I let up.

 

[jack30341]

I try to write something every night, but most gets written in the mornings, 30 - 45 minutes at a time. Bite sized pieces. It all adds up. Weekends make no difference, just changes what's "busy."

Sometimes mine are so bite sized that I email myself on the phone.

I put the story title in the subject line.

Then, I'll peck out an idea, some dialogue, or even just a moment I want to capture.

Glad no one ever had to discover an email I wrote myself that only said, "When he raised over her, she screamed from her soul."

 

[KeithD]

This would be my dream scenario.

I was still working most of that time. I just moved into a "work my own time and location" job and, as SamS noted, actually was working every day but on my own schedule, doing what else I wanted to do when I wanted to do it.