This is the time of year when everyone else in publishing seems to take the month off and drink a lot of eggnog. I, on the other hand, always find myself scrambling to get everything done and feeling overwhelmed by the effort. Partly this is because I’m thinking, “The year is almost over! I didn’t do…
Tag: priorities
Just say nay
If you’re not a Shrek aficionado, this blog post’s title will make you go “huh,” but I like to amuse myself. This isn’t very hard to do (I’m a lot like Shrek that way). I know I’ve talked before about the importance of protecting your writing time, but if the conversations I overhear on…
Setting Priorites: What I Did
So yesterday I was talking about the difficulty of setting priorities when you have a lot of competing demands and some of the work may prove unnecessary in the long run, but if you don’t do it, you may starve and how this whole situation leads to dithering and spending time doing less important tasks…
Setting priorities: What to do, what to do?
Today is turning out to be one of those days when I have about fourteen fairly large-scale projects that I could be working on, all of which are important, but some of which may end up being a waste of time depending on factors beyond my control. Of course, I never think good work…
The Daily Habit
People are often surprised to learn that even full-time writers, such as moi, struggle to find time to write. You’d think that without the demands of a day job doing something else, a writer would be able to devote hours every day to writing. That’s not true. It’s especially not true for the writing that you…
How knowing what you want simplifies everything
As a freelancer, I spend a certain amount of each day trying to get work. The difficulty comes in evaluating the different opportunities that present themselves. Sure, if someone wants to offer me a gazillion dollars for my latest book, I’m in, but between those delightful events are whole acres of less clear-cut opportunities. Should I pitch an idea…