I'll admit it – I'm a daydreamer. I often find myself checking out of reality and mentally crafting scenes for my stories throughout the day. I usually let these ideas simmer and develop like hot soup in a slow-cooker, throwing in more ingredients as they come to mind. However, as a full-time student, I don't get much time to actually take that “mental writing” as I call it, and put it down on paper. I value having the time to be creative in this way, and I find myself getting frustrated and disheartened from writing at all when I don't have time for mental writing first. It's not always easy to juggle writing academically as a student with finding the time and motivation to write for fun. I've seen authors online often advise dedicating a chunk of time every single day for writing, but I know that such a rigid structure wouldn't work for me. Instead, I take the little free time I have (mostly the weekends and night time) and write when I feel inspired. Any idea I had churning in my mind that I didn't get a chance to flesh out by then, I use this time to write down and work on. This is a method I've used for years and it works well enough. But when I begin to feel overwhelmed and bogged down with schoolwork, my system starts to fall apart. I use writing as a way to step away from my own life […]
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