A Writer Under Pressure is More Creative

Time pressure is something that writers all experience at sometime or another and it is generally looked upon as an unnecessary pressure along with all the other writing challenges that they have to face.

As a writer, you will know that in your busy life, the time pressure often seems to result from external causes, like when you find that you have too much work assigned, or from the lack of clock time, or just from the relentless flow of time itself.

Experiencing Time

However, there is now evidence to show, that having that feeling of time pressure depends on your perspective to the situation.

There is an old adage: ‘A watched pot never boils.’ This means that if you are anxiously waiting for something to happen, you may be waiting for water to boil, or for a stoplight to turn from red to green, time will actually seem to perversely slow down.

When we take a position apart from what is happening, it seems to affect the way time is experienced. But when that happens, all the productivity is lost, while you are waiting for the event to occur, the result is that not much else gets done.

Writing is all about productivity and the amount of time that a writer has, without any other distractions, is very important and will make a really big difference between their level of success and their earning potential.

What is needed is for your perspective of time to be part of your writing work, which will then affect the way that you perceive time and how your experience of time will then be different.

Increase In Writing Ideas

Recent research has indicated that time pressure has a very important impact on writing creativity.

Time pressure increases the creative output. By forcing idea production, with the setting of goals and incremental deadlines, you will find that a much greater number of writing ideas are produced, than if you did not have time pressure.

Forcing output pushes writers along the experience curve; it will refine their methods, build their competencies and really improve their overall performance.

Motivation is critical to creativity and time pressure causes motivation.

As a writer, when you are motivated by time pressure you will produce a level of creative writing ideas that will help your writing succeed.

So, in your writing activities, as you go about your busy day with all the writing challenges that you are trying to face, just remember that even though you are feeling the pressure, time is on your side.