My plan to manage college and writing:

 Hello, again! 

    It's me, Hamsa. Unless you didn't get the chance to read my first blog, you might not know that I'm a college student. My major is Literature and in the last semester, I had two core papers: Introduction to English Literature and Introduction to Elizabethan Literature. Well, tomorrow, my college reopens after a month and a week of summer vacation. My time table was released and I realized that for this semester, I had four core papers; Jacobean, Restoration, Augustan, and Romantic literature. I'm both intimidated and excited! I hope my minor subject, Economics, is just as easy. 

    For the past few weeks, I wrote every day. So far, I'd done with 13 chapters of my latest draft. But once college reopens, that balance would get scaled by whatever puts more pressure. I am sure that this is one of the many problems that teen writers face. So, here's my plan to manage college work and my writing schedule. 

1. Wake up. 

2. Write how much I could. 

3. Go to college. 

4. Come back home. 

5. Finish whatever homework is given. 

6. Write again. 

I had used this pattern back in December 2023 and that made writing much more interesting. Every morning, I was eager to open my laptop and type away what came to mind and what suited the best for that scene or chapter. I know it's not the same for everyone and different people have different time schedules and responsibilities. But my problem is the retention of interest in writing. This is one of my self-imposed ways that ensure that I write my novel regularly, which in turn makes me remember that my story exists and is waiting for me to write. I assume that my WIP is a living being and the more I write, the more life it breathes. 

Also, I created some models of book covers for my trilogy and they are amazing :) 

Question of the day: How do you manage your writing schedule?