Scheduling & Tracking

Weekly Log – March 10, 2020: In Recovery

This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting   As the image hints, I’ve been dealing with a disaster in the family and it has knocked me off center for weeks now…and I thought I had been dealing with it just fine. However, as Marcus Aurelius insisted, I have slowly […]

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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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Weekly Log – November 19, 2019: Calm Waters At Last

This week’s log: Monday:  Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: 4,561 words. Saturday:  4,707 words. So, after the flurry of the last few weeks, and me very (not so) smartly trying to juggle two books at once, I’m back to one at a time, and thoroughly enjoying myself.  The words are flowing. It

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