How much do you work on your writing?

The exact amount I need... which means, whatever. I don't like to set limits for myself. I just write when I feel like it, how much I feel like it, for how long I feel like it.

Not nearly as much as I'd like in the summer. I have to have a quite atmosphere where I'm not needed and can just sit and write. Sometimes I'm only able to write for a few hours on a Saturday at the library, though usually I can squeeze a couple hours in throughout the week.

When my kids go back to school and on days I don't work, I may get four or five hours those days.

A few hours a day, if I can. Some days I can't do any at all due to other demands on my time. Some days I do nothing but write. It really depends.

So normally, when I'm working at my real job (which does not involve being a full-time writer), I spend about 2 hours a day working on my novel project at hand. This includes 45-60 minutes of actual writing, which is how long it takes me to write about 1000-1200 words, and the rest is spent tweaking the current project plot or outlining new ideas. When I'm strapped for time, I devote the 1 hour I can carve out of my day to just writing.

I'm on vacation at the moment, so I've been able to devote some time to editing a finished novel. I can spend an additional 2-3 hours per day on that, a luxury which I don't usually get to enjoy.

I write five hours per day, five days per week, unless deadlines get in the way. But I know exactly how almost all of my writer friends with nine to five jobs would answer this because they've all had to answer it. I can't believe how often this question come sup. They all say, Every possible minute I can.

Really, if you want to be really good, if you want to succeed, is there any other answer?

At the moment I don't get as much time to write as I'd like. Maybe an hour a day. When I was writing my first book, it was more like eight hours a day, and that gave me a good rhythm.

I work on my writing a lot more than that, though. It's more or less always front of mind, whatever I'm doing.

Mostly on weekends. I need an hour or two of procrastination before I can get into it and with working full time, I'm just too tired to write during the week. Or, rather, too tired to enjoy it.

I've been writing at page a day, a little more depending if I've found an extra reserve of motivation inside of myself. I also spend about thirty minutes to an hour daily looking over what I have written to find places where I can improve the flow of my prose. I'm extremely new to writing work that isn't technical mission reports or training manuals so I have more then enough material to revise!

40 hours a week, minimum. It's a job, so I treat it as such.

Jeff

It depends, I would say. If I have time, maybe an hour a day and during breaks or holidays I have more time

Consistently inconsistent. But on a day I'm writing, I write until I have to stop, either because I'm too tired to write anything good or I ran out of outline or out of time or I just have something else I have to do. I don't write everyday or even every week. Some weeks I just procrastinate and whine too much. Some weeks every spare hour is spent writing and I do little else. My DVR gets bloated on the regular. Then I have to take a week off from writing to catch up because I don't want to delete anything.

It depends. Over the summers or winters or weekends I can get more done. On weekdays I'm exhausted from work. My novel is currently undergoing its second round of beta reading, so I'm chilling for a while and waiting for the feedback to come back before I start more intense work. I do try to set myself a schedule or goals, but sometimes it's just unrealistic given real life. Hopefully someday my novels will become my "real life".

If I don't have work, errands, or a combination of the two, then I shoot for several hours at the very least. But then I'm also easily distracted--Facebook, fun Twitter links, reading blogs, CandyCrush--so I don't always get as much down as I'd like. It also depends on what I'm writing--novel, new plot idea, blog or fanfiction. But I do write something everyday. Or I'm reading, which I count as entertainment and working on writing.

On days I work, I get usually get a good hour or two in, depending on the length of my shift.

However long it takes me to hit 1500 words or so. I try to do this at least five days a week, but it doesn't always work out that way. Perhaps it's a sedate pace compared to others, but if I try to exceed that breakdowns and meltdowns occur.

70 - 80 hours a week. Usually 10-12 hours every day. More if I'm off from work.

I realize I have the luxury of more writing time than most unpublished writers, and I use that time wisely. Of course, that also means sacrificing in other areas of my life. It helps that I do it 7 days a week and don't take off birthdays or holidays.

Not as much as I should, unfortunately. If I'm actively writing, I usually hit about an hour to two hours in a single sitting. If I'm revising and editing, it can be a bit longer. Really depends on what's going on and what mindset I'm in at the time - some days I just straight up can't be bothered.

I work on my stuff when I can, and no matter what I do, I feel like it's never enough. Hopefully once everything settles and I'm unpacked from my move I'll be able to devote more time to writing, around my other activities.

Less than I'd like that's for sure. We have a home-based business so as 'office administrator' I don't have much free time. When I worked a regular 9-5 job outside the home I got in a lot more writing.
Now I get up before the crack of dawn and write for an hour or two before my husband gets up. The rest of the day is usually shot well into the evening but if I get a chance I write for another hour or so some time during the day.

A few hours every day, seven days per week.

Lilly

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Mostly on weekends. I need an hour or two of procrastination before I can get into it and with working full time, I'm just too tired to write during the week. Or, rather, too tired to enjoy it.

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This.

I'm just too tired most of the time, and when I get home there are too many distractions; nothing grinds my gears worse than being interrupted mid-sentence. That being said, I wait until everyone is asleep, and then I write until I'm too tired to. Could be three hours, could be thirty minutes; a thousand words, or ten.

I'm so embarrassed to answer this question because sometimes I go months without writing. I have a really demanding job and summer is when I'm busiest.

But in November - April my schedule slows down considerably, so I get a lot done then. I probably work on it like a part time job between those months, maybe 10 hours a week or so.