This is K.M. Wyland.

and you are listening to the 475th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

podcast. I've spoken many times about how my preferred routine is to spend two hours

a day on my fiction writing.

This week someone emailed me wondering why I'd settled on just two hours.

It's a good question, and the answer is necessarily subjective to my own experiences and preferences.

Mostly it has to do with time constraints.

In a perfect world, I spend more time writing every day, but there's just too much to do in a day and too little time in which to do it. time

in every day, but there's just too much to do in a day and too little time in which to do it.

Even though I'm a full-time writer, quote-unquote,

much of my time is still taken up by other concerns,

including the business end of writing daily email and

social media weekly responsibilities like this podcast as well as more general

stuff like bookkeeping and grocery shopping but even aside from real world time keeping and

even aside from real world time constraints, I will say that I do find two hours to be a nice time slot.

It's long enough to really settle in and get some work done, but not so long that it feels formidable

to tackle. Maybe it's partly that I haven't developed a habit for writing in longer swaths of time, but I do notice that I tend to be more distractible

if I feel I have plenty of time.

For me, two hours a day is long enough to get something done but not so long that I don't feel the

pressure to make sure I make good use of it.

So there you have it.

And moving on, I hope you enjoy this week's podcast, how to tell if your story has too much

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