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Writing On The Road: Ways to Keep Writing No Matter What
I’m travelling, and I can’t read or write in the car. In our family, where we all suffer from travel sickness, I’m the worst. So I envy all those people who can do whatever they want while someone else drives. Imagine how many words I could write on a four hour drive!
Major life events do the same thing to us — put us in places and ongoing situations where writing seems impossible. Weddings, funerals, illnesses, moving house … sometimes we just can’t write. But very often, we can find small pockets of time and solitude (or make them happen) and keep working on our writing projects.
I’m deep in the middle of revising my novel, and I didn’t want to lose momentum for the ten days I’m away, so I had to come up with some other ways to keep my revision moving along. Here is what I found.
The first one, of course, is to make time to do an hour’s work on my laptop at night or early in the morning. While everyone else is sleeping, or watching a movie or at the beach, I do a little revision work. I’m not missing out on much, and it makes me feel good. I’m a writer and I’m writing.
It also helps when those you travel with understand that, and give you the space and time. They don’t hassle me — in fact, once they even said, ‘Hey, you want to do some writing while we get out of your…
