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mmerriamA question for all my gentle readers.
How do you prioritize your time?
If you are one of the writers on my friends list tell me how you make sure that you get your allotted daily writing time in. How do you manage to not lose precious writing time to the daily things that must get done, such as laundry, eating, and dealing with the myriad stuff that crops up? Do you just give yourself permission to let things go until you've applied butt to chair for at least X amount of time?
If you are not a writer, then tell me what methods you use to prioritize time to make sure you actually get to have some fun (whatever that might be to you) once in awhile. We know that all work and no play leads to running around a haunted hotel while chasing your family with an axe. Since none of you have reached that point, you must able to relax somehow.
In other news, tomorrow at school I'm going to tell Lynn that I plan to start dropping classes, and re-arrange my schedule. It is my hope that the extra couple of hours saved every day will ease the scheduling stress, and will help both![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
careswen and I sleep better.
How do you prioritize your time?
If you are one of the writers on my friends list tell me how you make sure that you get your allotted daily writing time in. How do you manage to not lose precious writing time to the daily things that must get done, such as laundry, eating, and dealing with the myriad stuff that crops up? Do you just give yourself permission to let things go until you've applied butt to chair for at least X amount of time?
If you are not a writer, then tell me what methods you use to prioritize time to make sure you actually get to have some fun (whatever that might be to you) once in awhile. We know that all work and no play leads to running around a haunted hotel while chasing your family with an axe. Since none of you have reached that point, you must able to relax somehow.
In other news, tomorrow at school I'm going to tell Lynn that I plan to start dropping classes, and re-arrange my schedule. It is my hope that the extra couple of hours saved every day will ease the scheduling stress, and will help both
careswen and I sleep better.
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Date: 2004-06-08 05:08 am (UTC)This is not entirely true. Sometimes I manage to put things in the right order. But mostly my writing runs away with me.
When I was first starting a novel, I was newly married (which was a lot more complicated than that phrase expresses, but that's a story for another time). I was in nuclear physics grad school. My commute was two hours a day in the car. And I was writing a book. So we decided that at the end of every day, I would tell Mark what I had done on the book. He wouldn't judge it, he would just listen and occasionally ask questions. If I had done nothing, I still had to report in with that information. This kept me accountable for long enough that the work got really ingrained, and it also kept him involved in a way and gave us some regularly scheduled talking time, which was also both fun and important.