Writing - Time

When we decide to write, we make a commitment to spend time, a considerable amount of time in fact, where we will be in solitary confinement. Sounds dramatic! However, during the writing process, you are the only one who can do the work because it comes from your mind. 

Apart from when we are carrying out research, all other aspects of writing have to be solitary. That's okay, it is what we sign up for. 

In my own experience, I first tried writing while working full time, married with children, and it didn't work. I was just into my 60's when I had retired and had the time to write. All budding writers need to examine the issue of time.  

Consider Time

 

It only takes a second to make a mistake,

and a minute to compound the error.

An hour is a significant time to take,

and in a day create real terror.

 

Some real creativity happens every day,

and in politics a long time is a week.

A month can chase the seasons away,

and a good year on January 1^st we seek.

 

When young a school day is so slow,

even though it lasts just a few hours.

When old, months faster than rivers flow,

and time takes away our powers.

 

Time like sand flows through our hands,

like running water we can touch only once.

It never returns for a second night’s stand,

but is gone forever without response.

 

Time is passive in one voice,

and an unstoppable action in another.

It provides the opportunity to make a choice

but is unmoved if we don’t bother.

© David L Atkinson March 2015 

God Bless