The schedule
Have I mentioned my schedule?
Ah, I thought so. But this is the newest incarnation: a stern 1/2 hr by 1/2 hr list of hope and desperation. I fit things into it based on optimal work speed: best guess, if I've just finished a book in the last 24 hrs, I can bang out a review in 1/2 hr. I built in tea breaks. Lunch. (I need to build in exercise time, too.)
The plan is: make a rigid-looking schedule and try as hard as possible to stick to it. If something overflows its slot, then something else gets pushed off, and so be it.
I made this morning a bit easy--mostly housekeeping (cleaning house and study, laundry, trimming old files, etc) and pushed all the writing into the afternoon, which may not have been the best way to do it. BUT--I have the most energy in the mornings, and there were many, many housekeeping chores that had been put off for far too long. So, some of those are now out of the way and no longer preying on me. Maybe one morning a week should be set aside for these onerous tasks? I'll make a note of it.
At least this is true: taking on the issue of scheduling has forced me to "take control" and "take direct responsibility" and all those buzz-wordy things so at least I -feel- as if I'm accomplishing things (even if I don't get everything done, I get more than one thing done, and that is good) and so I feel more positive about it all as a whole. This, too, is good. It is progress. Now if I can stop fretting about money issues, think of all the extra brain I'll have back again for writing!
Excelsior!
Ah, I thought so. But this is the newest incarnation: a stern 1/2 hr by 1/2 hr list of hope and desperation. I fit things into it based on optimal work speed: best guess, if I've just finished a book in the last 24 hrs, I can bang out a review in 1/2 hr. I built in tea breaks. Lunch. (I need to build in exercise time, too.)
The plan is: make a rigid-looking schedule and try as hard as possible to stick to it. If something overflows its slot, then something else gets pushed off, and so be it.
I made this morning a bit easy--mostly housekeeping (cleaning house and study, laundry, trimming old files, etc) and pushed all the writing into the afternoon, which may not have been the best way to do it. BUT--I have the most energy in the mornings, and there were many, many housekeeping chores that had been put off for far too long. So, some of those are now out of the way and no longer preying on me. Maybe one morning a week should be set aside for these onerous tasks? I'll make a note of it.
At least this is true: taking on the issue of scheduling has forced me to "take control" and "take direct responsibility" and all those buzz-wordy things so at least I -feel- as if I'm accomplishing things (even if I don't get everything done, I get more than one thing done, and that is good) and so I feel more positive about it all as a whole. This, too, is good. It is progress. Now if I can stop fretting about money issues, think of all the extra brain I'll have back again for writing!
Excelsior!