I hear myself say this is such a busy school year and I have to laugh at the joke. It’s always a busy school year. Life is unexpected and social and if you want to live a creative life, you’ve got to persist in making time to do whatever the creative work you have to do looks like.

My most recent strategy for making time involved taking inventory of how I organize my writing ideas and coming up with something that actually works for the kind of brain I have. I’m not going to go into an explanation of my new system. It seems that’s only useful to me. What’s useful to you is having a system to organize your writing ideas and being flexible about changing what isn’t working.

I don’t think I’ll ever write a linear outline again unless forced. They just don’t work for me.

Here’s a picture of what this week worked like a miracle for me.

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Some past posts to keep you making time: 
Adjust your pace accordingly.
It’s about the routine and how you shake up the routine
There are things you will have to give up
See it to achieve it
Washing the dishes
Write slowly
A celebration of the pause
Monday, a run through the driving rain
Zen accident
Get out of your comfort zone