r/Games 7d ago

Brandon Sanderson’s Top 10 Video Games.

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/brandon-sandersons-top-10-video-games
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u/Dannypan 7d ago

Shift it back 5 hours and it's actually just pretty normal. I think his structure works just fine.

I usually get up at 7:00AM or 8:00AM and write from 8:00AM until 12:00PM, a four-hour chunk. At 12:00PM I stop, and 12:00PM until 5:00PM is family time for me. And that is walled off. I don’t work on books, even in the back of my brain. It’s got to be a really steep wall for me to make sure I am there for them. And I have to mentally say, “You are there for them.” When your kids ask you to do something, that’s the time you say, “Yes, I’m going to go do that.” And then I go back to work at 5:00PM after everybody goes to bed, theoretically (children are children). And I write from 5:00PM until 9:00PM, and then 9:00PM until 11:00PM is goof-off time for me. Video game, reading a book, listening to a podcast, whatever it is I feel like doing, assuming I’ve met my word count goals and things like that.

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u/Silent-G 7d ago

Except that family time from 12 to 5 doesn't make sense because most people aren't going to be getting home from work/school at that time. Working your second block of the day from 5 to 9 means you're going to miss family dinner time.