How much time?

How much time do you spend writing per week? On a good week? On a bad one?

I never stop writing :angry:!

I try not to write at all, so I end up going clean for a few weeks and then binging for a weekend or so.

45 - 50 hours.

Sometimes 0 hours, sometimes up to like 100 hours (the latter not too often though, luckily). I can't compose "steadily" by reserving a fixed amount of time every day for composing. Rather, I work in very intense blocks, which become more frequent when some deadline approaches :P But it's also hard to define what qualifies as "composing". If you just count the time when I'm sitting at the desk writing notes it's of course significantly less than if you count all the time when I'm just thinking about a piece, playing with a little idea in my mind, planning musical structures, listening to interesting sounds/music which will influence me musically, or even just phantasizing about pieces I'd like to write one day but don't have the time for right now. All those latter forms of "composing" go on pretty much all the time.

1-10

But over the summers and when I'm not doing tons of work,significantly more.

0-4

This includes arranging as well as composing...

:mellow:

Around 60 as of lately (i.e. the last month or so). Generally more along the lines of 30-40. Of course, I don't have, what you call, a "life" so the fact that I can only devote 60 is pretty pathetic. =/

With a new baby at home, it's up to him how much time I get to compose; and it will proabaly be that way for the next, oh, 18--no, 30--years.

I can't think of it per week; it's more day to day around here. Usually it's 0 per day. Sometimes I will get in an hour, but that's once a week. Sometimes it's two hours if the baby is out visiting peeps. If the baby is in a great mood, I can sneak in another 25 minutes here and there.

And he prefers Romantic music. He freaks out when I do my own stuff. :(

With a new baby at home, it's up to him how much time I get to compose; and it will proabaly be that way for the next, oh, 18--no, 30--years.

I can't think of it per week; it's more day to day around here. Usually it's 0 per day. Sometimes I will get in an hour, but that's once a week. Sometimes it's two hours if the baby is out visiting peeps. If the baby is in a great mood, I can sneak in another 25 minutes here and there.

And he prefers Romantic music. He freaks out when I do my own stuff. :(

Ha. That's why I'll never be a parent.

Well, one of the reasons.

ahh...0-5 or 6. Depends.

An hour a week if I'm lucky.

too many hours to count of jotting down ideas but real composition with the intention of a finished product... 5-10 hours. (more now that drumline only practices once a week now!)

bout 3 hours or so on a good school week.

AP classes are killing my creativity one paper at a time.

( actually entire pieces tend to pop into my head durring classes. It truly is a shame to forget how they went when I have a chance to write anything down u_u)

Zip on a bad one. >.< horrible isn't it

however I honestly have no clue how many melodies spawn over the span of a week. Hundreds I supose. This week I thought up a fully orchestrated clasical piece durring the last 5 minutes of the AP chem lecture. Unfortunately It died about 1 minute after the conclusion of the lecture. :'(