Last week acquired a day job. I started working on Monday.
While I’m grateful for the regular income soon to be filling my bank account (before I send it right back out to pay bills), this full-time position brings forth a possible complication, namely, time to write. It’s too early now to judge on how big of an impact this job will have on my schedule. I’m still adjusting to the idea of getting up at 6:30 every morning. Also, I’m just working on revisions for The World (Saving) Series and so far none of them have been very extensive. Doing only one chapter a night, they haven’t really been very plentiful either. But I know some big ones are coming, heavy on the rewrites.
Next month I’ll be doing short story revisions/rewrites on top of the novel revisions. The month after that, I’ll be writing a new short story.
It’s going to be interesting, and I imagine frustrating as well, to see how I will be able to manage my time and rearrange my world in order to accommodate 8 1/2, 9 hours of my day now devoted to something other than playing Facebook games, blathering on Twitter, and, oh yeah, maybe getting some actual writing done.
I know that in order for this to work, I’m going to have to treat it like having two jobs. Sure, I can cram a lot of stuff in on the weekend. I’m already doing my blog posts for two blogs then and the weekends are usually when I make my greatest strides in getting writing projects accomplished (I have no idea why that is; you’d think it’d be the other way around, not doing as much writing on the weekends, but there you go). But for five days a week, I’m going to have to really get serious about time management, take no excuses, shun the distractions, and get something done. Progress must be made every day or I’ll be getting nowhere.
I’ve come too far to have everything suddenly come grinding to a halt just because now I’m spending my day earning money in order to support this career that I really want to have and really want to make work, but now I’m too tired to do it and don’t have the time. I definitely cannot succumb to those excuses if I want to be successful.
And I really want to be successful.
It’s going to be a challenge, but I’m going to do it. I really have no other choice.
It’s a good thing I don’t have a social life. It’d suffer terribly because of this.
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I think once you get your work routine down, get used to being awake that early, and everything, that the writing will fall into place as well. I’d venture a guess that you’ll be like me with my (very limited) writing – I spend most of my time at school, commuting, etc. thinking about the things I want to write about. I go through entire scenes in my head, multiple times, tweaking little things here and there to make them right. The trick is remembering something you thought about at 11am in enough detail so that when you’re home and able to write at 8pm you can write it out thoroughly.
You’re a pro, you got this.
I’m just worried that I’ll put off until the weekend and then never write a word down. I’ve done okay this week, but not great. I’m guessing you’re right. Once I get into a rhythm, it’ll come easier.
Thanks.