Time Management

I'm not exactly the 'word' in managing time, but I have been giving it more serious consideration lately with an increasingly busy schedule. I find that I come up with terrific plans and the best of intentions, then splat! things come crashing down.

Well, I think that to be successful in any business you need to be able to keep busy and fresh. This means managing your time to seek out new opportunities and ways of doing the same thing in a different way. So here I am revisiting my long-ignored blog hoping that I can share with readers bits that I've learned about the writing life. Well, today's nugget is to manage your time.

So the plan is this: Monday will be the day for the weekly blog post. There will be a chunk of time every afternoon dedicated to marketing. Early morning hours will be my 'quiet time' opportunity to edit my novel or work on my new book. Other than that, I find that my time is largely flexible based on the urgency of the various projects on my plate and their deadlines. And, for heaven's sake, stop checking email ten times a day! Most of my projects require frequent email communication, but I plan to streamline that a little so that specific times will be email 'check & response' times.

Well, that's my plan. You'll know if it's working for me if I actually remember to make a blog post next Monday. Enjoy your writing week!