So you've all noticed by now that I'm posting less on my blog. There's a reason. If you EVER want to see the next novel then I have to draw the line somewhere.
TIME MANAGEMENT FOR DUMMIES.
The short version.
Cliff notes.
1. Wake up and while you are brushing your teeth write a novel.
2. Eat breakfast and write a novel.
3. Sweep the floor and write a novel.
4. Do laundry and write a novel.
5. Drive to the grocery store and write a novel. ok well I guess it's illegal to use a computer in the car so you can write it when you get back.
6. Feed your cats and write a novel and if your cat is clever they will write one while they eat.
Repeat seven days a week and at the end of a month you'll have say a gadzillion novels.
Aren't you glad I helped you out like this?
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I have the same problem. And arrived at the same conclusion as you.
I hope Touloose's Space Monkey Odyssey is moving right along. :-)
Oh yeah. He's aiming for 2023. He knows the longer you work on a novel the better it gets...plus there's all those spelling errors...
I second Jen, and you. You'd think by reading my lame blogs it wouldn't take much time, but I keep thinking I should cut way back because I could probably get pages and pages written in that time.
Or at least a paragraph or two.
I miss your blogs... yet i want the next novel...OH the agony!
And about your list... 1-4, Roger that. Number 5, just marry a politician and you can do both at the same time...... ooopf, did i say that?? (just joking! Obviously, I watch too much late night tv). :)
It's not illegal to write a novel while you drive if you do it on a DVR.
Just sayin'.
I'm SO doing that...
That's exactly what a novelist ought to do while writing a WIP. Without such a self-imposed discipline, she could only dream of writing the two holy words 'THE END' while feeding her cat. Blogging is fun when a novelist (at work) has the time. But once the writing of a novel is underway, nothing else should stand in the way.
What a novel bit of advice. Thank you. ;)
I'd have Touloose do the laundry for you. :)
Saw your blurb on today's Shelf Awareness!!
BTW, my hubby used to work for Cliffs Notes. I even met "the" Cliff of Cliffs Notes. He was a real gentleman.
isn't that KEEN! I love shelf awareness and I HEART Robert Gray!!!
If it helps you get That Next Novel into the grubby hands of us readers of Lottery, then please do blog less often. I can show you how - check out when my last blog entry was.
Okay, so I rarely blog anyway and have done way to little writing of my own in between, though I AM actually doing NaNoWriMo this year, have 16k words written, that's a third of a short novel, though I should have written half a novel by now, but that's still a lot for me. I have my new netbook computer (see a pic in a recent tweet at http://twitter.com/ben__bradley) and all these in-person write-ins to thank for even writing that much. I play around and surf (the web) too much when I'm by myself.
But yeah, it's been a few years but I remember really enjoying Lottery, and I'm looking forward to whatever novel you get published next.
"Write, write, write" - "How To Write Best Selling Fiction," Dean Koontz
That should be "way TOO little writing of my own" ... can't edit comments after they're posted, and I don't want people to think I'm illiterate or sumptin' ... :)
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