Fulltime writers! What does you day look like?
I'm moving to Japan to teach the English to the kiddos, and I'm super excited about it. That happens at the end of March. My last day of work end *checks watch* in about 43 hours. I'm going to have plenty of sitting-around time between packing and visits to friends. I plan on having several posts queued up before I head over so that I can have settling-in time in my new digs.
SO! I'll have more writing time than I've ever had. What do you full-timers do? Do you have a set schedule, or do you just bang things out when the inspiration hits? Do you write from home, or go set up shop somewhere? Do you write for exactly x hours a day, or does it fluctuate every day?
I feel the need to commute; writing in the apartment happens, but rarely, and the commute tends to clear my head. This may be out of habit. In this case, I'm no longer looking at a bus ride, but a hike to the Seattle Central Library.
Any thoughts?
Forgive the chatfilter. I'm excited for the time to do all of this.
Between the journalism and the weblit, I guess, yes, I'm a fulltime writer, though I make virtually no money from the weblit.
I basically live by deadlines. I post every weekday, just one now but it used to be two, and I also have rolling deadlines for the publications, all monthly, that I write for. So my day is based on whichever deadline falls next.
Everyone is different; I know some people like to do it as if they were in an office, 9 to 5 with lunch and two breaks, others like to go 16 hours a day when they're inspired and rest up the next day; some want to get up in the morning and charge into it, others like to stay up into the wee hours. It depends on how your particular muse works.
But I absolutely recommend writing every day, if you don't already. You could seize this time as an opportunity to improve your writing by challenging yourself to do a big chunk every day or weekday. I've written 2-4,000 words Monday to Friday, most of the time, for 11 months now and nothing, and I mean nothing, no course or expensive workshop or critique from an editor or anything has been as good for improving my writing. It's also a way to gain confidence in your ability to crank it out. (My attitude was, if Alexandra Erin can do it, so can I. I couldn't know for sure until I did, though.)
Good luck, Grant, and above all -- enjoy!
I'm -almost- a full-time writer, in that my day job takes less than 5 hours a day, only a few days a week.
My daily schedule varies a bit. I work evenings, so I don't really have to be anywhere until about 4 p.m. I get up whenever I like (which sometimes is as late as noon and sometimes as early as 6 a.m.) I almost never write at home, except when I'm just having a ton of trouble concentrating, so I usually end up in some sort of public place. I'm lucky enough to have a wealth of good writing haunts in the area.
A lot of the time, I end up at a little local coffeehouse less than a mile from my apartment. The coffee's good and cheap, and I'm enough of a regular that they don't mind me staking out one of the smaller tables for several hours. It's a pretty popular place, so it can get pretty crowded and noisy, especially around lunch time and again for the evening crowd.
There's also a good Panera bread about 15 minutes up the highway, and a Books'a'Million with its little cafe. Panera's comfier, but they're only open until 9 p.m., so I usually only go there on my days off. Panera has the bonus of free coffee refills.
When I want to save a bit of cash, I camp out in one of the student lounges on campus; since I'm an employee of the university, I get free access to the university's network, and since I work at the library, I have a key that can get me in after-hours.
Finally, if I'm hitting one of my insomnia spells, I find myself at the local Huddle House a lot. The night shift ladies love me and I've found that the people that come into diners at 3 a.m. are great inspiration.
Where I end up depends on my mood, the time of day, and my budget. If I can afford it, I prefer to be at a coffee shop. If I'm feeling crowded, I'll go somewhere quieter, like the library, the local park, or one of my secret hiking dens. I usually write on my laptop, but occasionally I'll go old-school and take a pen and notebook somewhere.
I don't really have any set writing schedule. I try to at least get 20 minutes of free-write in when I first wake up to get the juices flowing, but other than, I give myself assignments like "Write one poem" or "Write two articles for Associated Content" and I'll work on them as long as it takes to get them done. Sometimes that's an hour, sometimes it's six.
This ended up a lot longer than I expected...
I'm full time, with my programming/admin work being definitely part time. That said, I get interrupted a LOT. I homeschool/unschool my kids, so I get interrupted by them; my husband works at home, so I get interrupted by him... So I tend to write whenever I get a chance. 
I've recently taken to not working over weekends if I can help it at all; usually at least part of a Sunday is taken up with Scryer's Gulch updates, though.
I'm not a full time writer, but I've been a high school English teacher for three years, which means I've had summers off to write full time. I usually write for four to five hours a day, five days a week during that period of time. Last summer I got a bit burnt out on marketing and audience interaction (as it was the first summer I was publishing online) and the time I spent actually writing definitely suffered.