Writing on a Monday Morning

1. How to get started

Is it a challenge to get started writing on a Monday morning? Is it often difficult to get started writing?

I do not have that problem and I think I know why. I have something I want to write about. 

I have a purpose, something I want to write about. I have thoughts, ideas that I want to write down. I think everyone has such thoughts and ideas. Anyone can come up with thoughts and ideas that may be worth writing about. It can be from your life or from your surroundings, the world around you. 

There are an incredible number of things we can get ideas about and that we can write about. But the problem is for some: how to get started with writing 

2. Preparation: The day before, prepare the writing 

To get started with writing, you must have something to write about, and then you must have thought a little in advance. A great way to do that is to have thoughts up front, to take notes, and to get back to what you have noted later in relation to the topic you want to write about. 

In the evening, for example before going to bed, you can take a look through your thoughts and ideas, and maybe write a few words as a note. This helps you set your brain in motion so that it works for you at night while you sleep. You let your brain have material to work with, nourishment that the brain uses while you sleep and are in your dreams 

3. What happens during the night 

While sleeping in your dreams, things have happened that you notice in the way that you have new thoughts and ideas that come to you that you can include in the story that you are writing, whether it is a fictional story, an article or a poem. 

When you wake up you may notice that the thoughts come, the ideas are there, but in a jumble of different thoughts and ideas. It is important to take advantage of this moment, while the impulses, thoughts and ideas are fresh in the memory. What you are going to do now is systematize, clean and sort what you are going to write. 

No matter what you write, this method can be used successfully. It is of course well suited for people like me, people who are in a situation where they do not have to get up early on Monday morning and go to work.

If you have to go to work or school / study, you can still use the method and maybe write something down on the phone while sitting on the bus or train on the way to work or school and you can use the days you are not going out of the house early to practice this method. Read, think, take note before going to bed. When you wake up, you are aware of your feelings and thoughts. Where are you in the reasoning or narrative? What do you want to say? What do you have to say? Is there anything else you can use to write about what is important to you? 

This creative writing session on a Monday morning does not have to be very long. The important thing is that you start writing and that you review and improve what you write so that it is as complete as possible as a draft of a text that you will work on more later. 

Whether you work this morning writing session for a quarter of an hour or for two hours depends on the situation you are in, whether there are others in the house and whether you have other urgent tasks. 

If you are in a situation like mine, you can choose to stay where you are, in bed or in the study and work on what you are doing until you are satisfied. 

What is so wonderful about reading and writing is that you can start with a reading / writing project and keep going for as long as it suits you or as long as you have the opportunity. Then you can stop, put it aside to pick it up again where you left off the last time you read or wrote. 

4. Complete the text 

My experience is that it is important to forge while the iron is hot, ie to continue with the editing work and complete the text for possible publication as soon as possible, preferably the same day.