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Like most authors I know, writing is my passion but I have a ‘real’ job to pay the bills. So 80 plus hours a week are gone to that very important place that puts a roof over my head and kibble in the dog food dish. My writing, promoting, sleeping, eating, family and everything else has to fit into what is left. Sometimes there’s lots of time left and I can chat on the loops, add a few thousand words to my WIP, keep the family happy, eat, sleep and juggle the bills without any conflict. That would be about one week in twenty. The rest of the time Chaos reign supreme.
Time Management sounds so simple. Just make a list of what you need to do (I”m a big fan of lists) and then allocate enought time to each task. Unfortunately it works about as well as bugetting. There’s always some month left at the end of the money and there’s always tasks left when I run out of hours to allocate. Mostly it’s about compromise. If I skip the dusting, I have more time to write. Far be it from me to disturb that cute little dust bunny napping under the living room sofa.
I get no sympathy from the family. “You chose to take up writing” my adult son points out, his head shaking. “I can’t believe people pay you to do that.” Isn’t it nice to know that I wasted all that time on him when he was a toddler. I could have been writing alot sooner!
