Scheduling & Tracking

Weekly Log – February 11, 2020: A painful week

This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting + 1,626 words (book started)   Plotting usually comes more easily to me, but this book was painful.  I’m a couple of days behind now, but I should be able to catch up without too much effort.  Onwards….! t. [fusion_separator style_type=”shadow” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=””

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Busywork versus Actual Work. How to figure it out.

I think we’ve all been there.  Especially in day jobs where we’re showing up only for the pay cheque;  on days where you just don’t want to be there, you find ways to look busy that don’t actually tax your brain too much. That’s busywork. When you are working for yourself, though, there is zero

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Do You Need Transition Time in Your Schedule?

  Last week I spoke at length about stashing your time–well, stashing anything you can, actually, as a hedge against the vagaries of the publishing industry. Stashing time is a matter of deliberately working ahead of your production schedule.  (And if you don’t have a production schedule–a timetable of releases–then you’re missing the backbone of

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