I have a Life Hack for writers who find it hard to actually sit down and write. You’re welcome. 😊
Write in the Small Moments
This seems obvious, but when it comes down to it, it’s surprisingly difficult to actually sit down and write. When you’re a teenager, you’re often bogged down with a lot of things in your schedule. School, sometimes work, friends, sports, band, on and on! But there’s always tiny moments that everyone has. There’s an object lesson that I’m sure you all have seen at least once in your life.
In the demonstration, you get a jar that is supposed to represent our lives. There’s a jar of sand, a jar of big rocks, and a jar of pebbles.
The big rocks represent the extremely significant.
The pebbles represent the somewhat significant things.
The sand represents that not so significant things.
If you fill up the jar with sand, you can’t fit anything else. But if you put the big rocks in first, then the pebbles, then the sand, you end up with a jar full of rocks and sand.
The message of this is simple, but profound.
If you fill your life with things that don’t really matter that much, you won’t have time in the day for the things that do.
Here’s a video that demonstrates this experiment. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvvw2yy-dn4
How does this apply to writing?
If you want writing to be a priority, you have to make it one. It doesn’t have to be a huge rock, unless you have the means to make it so. If we’re really honest with ourselves, we don’t have that. So what do we do?
Write in the small moments!
Get a pen, paper, the notes app on your phone, whatever you choose to write on and just write a sentence in the five minutes you have before work in the morning. Listen to music that inspires you to write on your commute or while you’re going to the grocery store. Even when you’re not physically writing words, you can still be in your world.
You can always take a few seconds out of the day and write. Even if it’s only a sentence, that’s still one more piece of the puzzle you’ve found! Embrace that and don’t think of whether you’ve written the entire novel in two days.
It’s okay. You got this! Keep writing and fill your jar with little bits of writing every day. I’ll see you next time.
~ Chandler R. Williamson
The Author Mommy 