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Do you take a break from writing?

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Do you ever take a break from writing? I am not talking about if one is on vacation, the day gets away from you, and more.

I have had to take a break from writing due to an injury to my writing hand. Because that is how life works, it is always your dominant hand. LOLOL

So this month has been slow going. At first, I would heal a bit and then take a break. Eventually, I told myself I needed to stop until it got better. I was frustrated.

It made me think of the topic of this post. It also made me think of how I rarely take a break from writing. It gives me such a boost in a few ways.

But what makes you all take a break? Do you do it willingly, or do you have to?

Taking a break can be a good thing. Time away can make one refocus on the aspects of writing, such as plotting, character development, and setting. It can give y our hands time from the rigor of typing repeatedly and sitting in front of a computer. A break can be time to focus on family and other things you need to do or activities you enjoy.

At the beginning of this year, I told myself if I could write or do some form of writing, marketing, and edits 75% each month, that would be good enough for me. It has worked until this month when I am hen pecking things on my phone or computer.

The longer I am in this field, the more the view evolves on how I work on my craft. The more I’m okay with taking a break from it.

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What time of day works best for you to write?

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What time of the day is writing more productive for you? I ask for this reason. In an interview online, I wrote that I tend to write in the afternoon. I wait until I finish my errands and chores. A comment by a follower mentioned that she had not heard of a writer writing in the afternoon before. The owner of the site agreed.

That got me thinking. It is practical for me. I never considered writing first thing in the morning if it isn’t NaNoWriMo. It is hard for me to concentrate on writing if I have an errand, the fridge needs cleaning, laundry sorted, my animals cleaned, and more.

So, when do you write? When the mood hits me or when I have free time works for me.

Could I be more productive earlier? Yes, for again NaNoWriMo, if I want to win. I always want to win. I will get up early in the morning to get my word count. If I wait until the afternoon, it might not happen. Happily, I have attempted NaNo and have won all three times.

Apart from that, I tend to put it on hold until time presents itself.

If nothing comes on to write on toward a WIP, I will blog, or do something, anything, that goes toward writing, whether that is marketing, working on my social media platform, and more.

But everyone is different. What works for you is what matters at the end of the day.

Best of luck.

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Have you always called yourself a writer?

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When you began your writing career, was it hard to say that you were an author? It could be to oneself. Or it could be saying it out loud to other people.

I know for me, it was. My writing group had quite a few who thought like me. No matter how many times the group leader tried to convince us, it was not working. One day she wrote on the board a rule for the group. We were not allowed to say we were not authors/writers.

We laughed. Our group leader did not.

I felt unless I had something published, I had no right to make that claim. It turned out that others felt this way, and others still do.

And it was not until I became a freelance writer and published author did I make that claim to myself and the world.

And this is a shame. I know writers who write for pure pleasure and are OK if they never get published. They call themselves writers. I have a writer friend who will stop once her book is published. She is content with that prospect. She calls herself a writer.

Yet on the other side of the coin, I know authors who don’t have this issue. For them, they are writers from the get-go, and nothing will stop them from saying so.

Experiences in our lives mold what we think and do. What works for one does not work for the other.

I wish the singularity that binds authors together would be us all calling ourselves authors and saying it to others.

The Musings of A New Englander