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What's Your Best Time to Write?
by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ

What time of day do you write best or are most productive? Here are some tips to help you determine when your best time to write is:

Your Writing Power. How long can you write without draining yourself? Are you able to write more when you write for two hours each day without taking a break or do you find that you're able to churn out a good article or finish a chapter of that novel you're writing if you write for say, four one-hour periods with three fifteen-minute breaks?

Your Alert Level. This is simply determining what time of day your mind is at its most creative, imaginative and alert. Is it in the morning? In the middle of the night?

No Distractions. If you're a mom with kids to take care of, when's the best time that you can write? When they're at school? When the kids are napping or watching TV? If you're still single, when can you write without being distracted by family obligations?

The Write Time. Using the responses you have come up with in items 1, 2 and 3, compare which times they jive. These are your ideal times to write. Try this out and see if it works. Use these times for writing, and only writing!

Copyright © 2001 Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ

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