Schedules and Snipers

Pep Talks, Warnings & Screeds by George Singleton, with illustrations by Daniel Wallace If you usually write between five and seven o’clock in the morning, but for some reason have…

If you usually write between five and seven o'clock in the morning, but for some reason have a glitch in your schedule and for a week or month have free time from five to seven in the afternoon, please change your schedule. Do not think, I can't write at this time. Do not think, I'll just take a month off of writing until I get back on track with the schedule that works for me.

Any two free hours to write should work for you. Maybe it's a sign. Maybe you had to quit writing between five and seven in the morning because a deranged sniper is traveling around your area, shooting at houses before dawn. Don't let the deranged sniper make you quit writing altogether.

Scott Francis is a former editor and author of Writer's Digest Books.