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With your 12 Week Plan in hand, the next step is to determine how much time you can devote to your writing each week, when you will write, and how to use that time effectively. Everything that you accomplish happens in the context of the time you allocate to it. For many writers, the time they have for writing is limited, maybe even stolen from other priorities. Let's face it, the rest of the world usually wants you to be doing just about anything but writing. To write productively you must defend your writing sessions and make the most of the time you have. If you are not intentional about your time, then you cannot be intentional about your results.

You will start by creating a weekly schedule – the Model Week – to ensure that you can write as regularly as possible. You'll also use a simple time blocking strategy to ensure that your writing sessions are productive and as free as possible from distraction. This process will help you determine whether you have enough available time in your week to carry out your plan. If not, you may decide to lighten your plan or to find ways to carve out more time in your week. If you can't make your schedule work on paper, you won't make it work in reality. Finally, your 12 Week Plan will help you make the most out of whatever time you have for writing by making sure that you are as prepared as possible for every writing session.