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ARTICLE
The
Spiritual Side of Writing
by Joyce Lavene
"Time"
Time is fleeting.
Time for fun.
Never enough time.
Too much time on your hands.
There
are plenty of time slogans. Some of them work with us. Some of them feel
like the enemy breathing down on our necks. For many of us, time feels
out of control. There has to be time to wash the clothes and feed the
kids and work our jobs. There’s time for soccer and time for homework.
The only time we have left over for ourselves is time sleeping in front
of the television!
There is no magic formula that can make time your friend. The only slogan
that really applies to us as writers is that you can make enough time
for anything that’s really important to you.
How important is your writing to you?
Important enough to give up the new season of TV shows? Important enough
to make changes in your life to work on your craft? An hour a night. One
TV drama or two sitcoms. One hour of news that you already heard that
day.
If
you’re a morning person, one hour of lost sleep to sit down and actually
write those ideas that are fluttering around in your head.
Time is your commitment to your writing goals. Your writing can only mature
and grow if it’s exercised. Thinking about it won’t work. Talking about
it won’t put a book with your name on the spine in the stores. Only
putting your butt in the chair and facing the computer or word processor,
typewriter or pen and paper, can make the difference. No one succeeds
at a dream until it takes up some of their most valuable resource. Time.
What are you doing with your time today?
SHARE YOUR IDEAS WITH ME ON THIS AND UPCOMING COLUMNS! joyce@joyceandjimlavene.com
Joyce
Lavene writes a little bit of everything with her husband/partner,
Jim. They live in North Carolina with their three grown children and two
grandchildren. She welcomes visitors to her websites:
http://www.joyceandjimlavene.com
http://www.sharynhowardmysteries.com