How I Plan My Writing Day
And how I used to do it.
I used to try to micromanage my writing time.
At the beginning of each new year, I would go to Staples or Office Doodle and pick up a brand new day at a glance. I loved that new calendar smell!
Every year I would also have vague notions of what I wanted to accomplish in the coming year.
Using my incrementalistic procedures, I would decide that if I had 7 huge goals for the coming year, I would need to work on them daily.
I would take 8-hour days and divide them by 7 and get 68.57-minute chunks of time, and therefore allow, for instance, 7 am til 8:08 am for working on my first project.
You can do the math.
What great planning!
This will be great.
But I discovered that if, at 8:10 am, I was not working on my second project, I felt I was behind schedule, and my old friend “guilt” started building up, slowing down my fertile brain.
In the beginning, it was a great theory.
I noticed some people still propose that plan today as a writing tactic. But I had to pivot and join the No Stupid Theories Tour because life kept getting in the way.
Now, of course, I have issues. But even for those with no issues, the urgent will usually tend to capsize the important on our lazy rivers.
Life happens.
Seems as though each time I turned on a computer, it would crash and have to be restarted. Each time, it seems, I went to a website, that site insisted I needed to change my password. If I cleared my cookies, I lost my password memory.
I traded my day at a glance for a check sheet in one of my notebooks. I no longer worried when I started or when I ended. I just made sure it got done.
I followed the spirit of the law if not the letter of it.
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