Time to Write: How Would Your Life Change if You Had More Time for Your Writing?

Hi Fellow Writer

Time to write... that seems like an impossible dream for many writers, and maybe for you.

Consider how your life might change, if you had time to write: you could write a book, and win fame and fortune; you could build a writing career, and quit your day job...

Perhaps you're writing part-time, and you're convinced that you could make writing a full-time career, if you just had more time to get that career established.

I've been writing for over 30 years. During the early years of my career, I struggled to find time to write too. It wasn't until 1985, when I attended a seminar called Write For Your Life, given by award-winning crime author Lawrence Block in New York, that I managed to get a real handle on finding time to write.

Even before the seminar, I knew that writing was my life. From the time I was eight, thick blank notebooks were a joy to me: I could fill them with words. Scribble, scribble, scribble... until my fifteenth birthday, when my parents gave me an Olympia typewriter.

I tapped out endless short stories, articles, and attempts at novels on that Olympia. I even submitted some of these, and made tiny sales.

Make a commitment to finding time to write

All these years later, I know that I found time to write once I realized that I had to write. For me, happiness meant writing. On a day when I found time to write, no matter how many challenges the day presented, I was happy.

I made a commitment to writing, and to finding time for it.

If writing makes you happy too, you must find time for it. It will give you peace and sanity in an insane world.

I wish you all the writing success you wish for yourself, and much more.

Find time for your writing.

Happy writing. :-)

With much affection

Angela Booth

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