Happy Valentine's Day!!! *tosses sprinkles*
Now. It's blog chain time! This round features a question from Lisa. She wants to know the following:
The balancing act. How do you balance your writing time with everything else in your life--including kids, job, book promotion.
This is a pretty simple post for me. I don't have kids. I don't have a job (although I'm going on the prowl for one soon). Right now, I don't have to worry about book promotion because I don't have a book coming out in the near future (but I am querying one later this year).
What I do have is a thesis to write. And a family. A friends. Lots of friends who, for some reason, like seeing me and hanging out with me. So I've come up with a bit of a system: during weekdays, I work on my thesis (proposal, at this stage) in the mornings, then spend the afternoon working on my WIP. I make it a point to revise one page, though. This usually tempts me to work on at least a second page because I'm just too amped and feel like one page isn't enough. On weekends, no thesis whatsoever. I work on my WIP and hang out with my family, or I work on my WIP and catch up with friends, or I don't work on my WIP and watch a lot of TV/read awesome books.
It's been a blast so far. Let's hope I can keep this balancing act for a little while longer. *crosses fingers*
Thanks to Lisa for the topic! Make sure to check out Cole's post, then stay tuned tomorrow for Margie's post!
Before I quit my job, I used to squeeze writing time into my lunch break and evenings. If there's a will there's a way!
ReplyDeleteINDEED. I'm happy you can stick to writing for longer breaks now :D
DeleteYou had me at 'thesis to write.' I can imagine! Best of luck with the balancing act. No matter who or where you are, it seems there's never enough time for the things that mean the most (family, friends, bucket list dreams). Everyone I admire makes time, and I try to follow their examples. Someday I'll be as cool as ElanaJ. She's the ultimate time manager.
ReplyDeleteElana J should be the Queen Of Time Management. There's a lot to learn from her, as well as from other authors/friends who sacrifice in order to get the job done. *bows down to them*
DeleteOh. Thesis to write. That is HUGE. I think thesis and creative writing at the same time would fry my brain. :P
ReplyDeleteLOL, I have my moments, to be honest. My brain shuts down often. It's quite the challenge, but hey, it'll be worth it.
DeleteRight? O_o
Sounds like you have it down, girl! Good for you! Fingers crossed for you!
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