About Writing and Keeping a Schedule

 

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As a writer, there is nobody to force you to work. You can wait for your muse to strike, or you can go seeking something. Anything. It depends on what you are writing. During the month of November 2025, I have decided to write a story. A novel. It hasn’t quite solidified in my mind. Part of the fun is just seeing what happens. I know I want to aim for 50,000 words. Likely, it should be longer than that. It will be fiction, something new for me. It will draw upon the woo-woo in my life. There is a lot of that.

When you have a job that you go to, you need to start and end your day at specific times. These days, when a person works from home, I don’t know how different that might be, although I have some ideas. Like you might have a quota to meet, if your supervisor, who might be in New York, checks up on you and you are not at your keyboard ready to respond quickly, well, I could see somebody getting upset. I don’t think I would like a job like that.

But regular jobs like I used to have before I retired, I would get up at the same time, go to work at the same time, and do pretty much the same things every day. There was spontaneity in the emergencies that cropped up, though, in terms of harm to life or limb, they were not like that. I remember one emergency involving somebody who had run out of paperclips. I might put him in a novel someday. It still irks me.

Basically, I reported to work, did whatever needed doing, went home, and forgot about it until the next day. Except, I never forgot. In fact, some ten years after I retired, I still have work dreams. I used to tell my boss he owed me for overtime because I had worked at night in my sleep. Sometimes, I did come up with viable solutions to whatever was going on, but that has to be the same for other people, too.

I am not so close to other people who write to know of their schedules. I don’t know if they schedule stories in advance or if they write and report daily. This piece is written on 10/29/25 and will be scheduled to post on 11/4/25, so just seven days from now. For me, that’s tight. But, this is also new to me as my author’s website is relatively new and there really aren’t that many articles here.

However, I do write every day. Pretty much every day. I try to write three or four articles a day, three being usual. This will be my third for today. I try to write 3,000 words a day, though recently I’ve been managing 5,000 words a day. I consider myself in training as I will try to keep my current schedule in place and add working on my book on top of that. Can I do it? I think so. The only way I will know is if I try.

So, push yourself in whatever you do. You’ve got your obligations, likely of school or of work or both. Find something else to do that lightens your heart. Something you love to do, whether it is tinkering on your car, baking, sewing, crocheting, or learning something new. My next step today? I could go in so many different directions, but Samuel L. Jackson is calling my name. I am attending a MasterClass on acting. I figured a writer needs to know how to act based on what the characters do in her book.

Thanks for reading.

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🌺 Pauline Evanosky

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