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Time Management for Authors: #MFRWAuthor Blog Challenge, Week 36

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This week MFRW authors are musing on time management skills in the topic Managing My Writing Time.

Writing Time vs. Time for Other Stuff Authors Must Do

Are we talking about time management to immerse ourselves in our fiction? IMHO, fiction-writing time is lots easier to manage when an author is unpublished. After the story is ready to go to market, we have to divert time to write blurbs, advertising copy, promotional blogs, and Facebook posts. Whew, I’m exhausted!

My Time Management

Or how I attempt to manage.

I talked in my post last week about using lists for time management to remind me to put words on the page. But the best method I’ve found to manage is to make a list of what I’ve accomplished by tracking my hours and production. If I neglect to track what I’ve done, I’m much less productive.

When to Write

When I’m creating a new draft, I like to work in the early morning. But really, any time when I can get away from hungry animals,  talking family members, and the gagging mainstream news media works!

And because I’m on deadline for one book, and releasing another, The Viscount’s Seduction, on September 12th, that’s all I have time for this week!

This is a blog hop, so hop along with my fellow MFRW Authors to see their thought on time management!

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Time Management for Authors: #MFRWAuthor Blog Challenge, Week 36 — 8 Comments

  1. good point that writing isn’t always about our books. These days blogs, marketing stuff, proofreading two releases takes precedence over putting words to paper on a new project.

  2. I completely agree. It’s much easier to manage time for actual writing when you don’t have all the other stuff that also needs to be done!

  3. Congrats on your upcoming release! I think if I had deadlines to meet that would greatly effect my approach to writing, but since I’m an Indie author my only deadlines are ones I set for myself and well I let those go all the time.

  4. I’m Indie also, Meka, and the deadline is for editing. I have a messy, layered process and I’m never finished until it goes out the door to the editor. And then based on her comments, I’ll have more work to do later!

  5. All the other things that go along with writing the book is so time-consuming. I agree with your comment about “it’s never finished until it goes out the door to the editor.” That’s when I can breathe. Until then, to me, it’s like running a race, but you have to stop every now and then to take care of something else. Then jump back in the race! Congrats on your upcoming book!

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