Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Time. Another bug bear and not just for writers. Certainly one of the most crippling things for anyone trying to get something done is a lack of time. For many of us, we still have day jobs and families and finding the right balance is difficult.

Some of us do morning papers. Some of us have the significant other take the kids for an hour of free time for writing. Some of us make deals with ourselves in order to carve that bit of writing time out of the day.

I fall into the latter since well I have no significant other or children and morning papers don't suit me at all. I'm the deal maker. You write this long and you can play a facebook game for ten minutes, okay? Okay.

Does it always work? Hell no. time management is an art and I'm no artist. Sometimes I overplay online and get nothing done. Sometimes I'm just too tired to care. these are things I want to work on more. I want to get more consistent with my writing time or my writing goals. I think I need to set a few more of those to get myself moving. I'm a goal-oriented sort. Deadlines make me move even if they're artificial ones I set myself.

So, time management tricks, how do you all manage this?

Machiavelli Moon - what's that? yeah, didn't work on it

total word count for the year -

40627 / 175000 words. 23% done! (i swear this percent hasn't moved in forever)

Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron -

76328 / 80000 words. 95% done!

Beneath the Torn Sky -

57373 / 80000 words. 72% done!

Riding the Strangers -

35501 / 60000 words. 59% done! (at least I accomplished something here)

Masquerade -

1349 / 2500 words. 54% done! (must get this in gear)

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Saving used to come very easy to me. It doesn't any more.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'm not sure how much I'm saving but I am good and not paying full price for just about anything

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Heh. You dicker-er, you.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

more like the coupon queen

[hands4healing.livejournal.com]

I often buy the store brand, which is cheap to begin with.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

not with the way krogers does coupons b ut sometimes

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Local stores? At least where I shop? Usually is....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

and store products often suck. Actually not to much at krogers. walmart yes

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I don't shop at Wal-mart.

Bueller's has some decent store brand stuff.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Kroger's prime select is pretty good but i have coupons for that too

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Heh. When the store brand is about $2 cheaper or less...

Well, coupons are the least of my worries.