For the last month, I’ve been slogging through first round revisions for my self-dubbed “light and fun” YA contemporary, and it’s been hell. The revision process has been so bad I recently had a weekend-long panic attack. While I’m known to tweet/FB things like “Revisions. Grrr…,” I’m not opposed to the process. It’s an accepted fact of the writer life.
Task-Setting for Writers, Part IV: The Power of “No.”
Welcome to the final installment of Task-Setting for Writers. If you missed a week, you can read the previous three weeks here. By now it’s been established that we’re here because we need help getting everything done that we want to get done. Case in point, this week I spread myself too thin: date night with Hubby, the final meeting
Task-Setting For Writers, Part III: Bargains and Compromises
Welcome to part three of task-setting for writers. You can read weeks one and two here. There are some people out there that totally own the hand-off. My experience shows this happens with managers of some sort who drop the crap tasks on their underlings/interns. But your’re not here to discuss my traumatic work history. You’re here because you want
Task-Setting For Writers, Part II: Multi-Tasking
Welcome to part two of task-setting for writers. This will be a weekly feature for the next several weeks. If you’re like me, you want to accomplish more things than reasonable during the day: blogs to read, TV watch, peeps to catch up with, that book you want to finish reading, not to mention the gym. This is on top
Task-Setting For Writers, Part I: Priorities
Welcome to part one of task-setting for writers. This will be a weekly feature for the next several weeks. To say that the art of writing is time-intensive is like saying chocolate is awesome*. In my fantasy world, I have an unlimited amount of time each day to work on my projects, still train for a marathon, and give the