I’ve noticed lately that my brain is composed of compartments. Boxes, if you will. It began back when I was working a day job. I’d get in my car in the morning, drive to work, and practically solve all the problems of the world in that 25-minute reverie. I’d get phenomenal ideas for a new book, polish dialog in an existing one, remind myself to tweet and Facebook about a promo I was running. Brimming with ideas and good intentions, I’d dash into work and … Continue reading “How Many Brains Does it Take to be a Writer?”
Tag: time management
Top 5 Ways Authors Can Better Deal with Time
For authors, especially those who hold a day job in addition to writing, one of the hardest things is finding time to write, edit, publish, and market all the ideas they have.
I think time can feel like an enemy trying to keep us from getting what we need done. However, it’s not true. Time has no feelings and no agenda. Time is what it is, and that’s it. Time constraints start to feel stressful because of the way we interact with them. So, I thought I’d offer a few tips on how to view time so you see how much you’re getting out of the limited time you have each day. Continue reading “Top 5 Ways Authors Can Better Deal with Time”
Author #Hashtags and #Brand and #Content, Oh My!
For several years now, I have struggled to learn what I need to know as an author in order to get my books under the eyes of those who might enjoy reading them. How do I find and use the advice of the experts and other authors to my best advantage? What can I devote more time to and what needs to fall by the wayside?
New methods of promotion come to us daily from an increasing variety of sources, all of them touted as the latest, greatest avenue for self-promotion and sales. Continue reading “Author #Hashtags and #Brand and #Content, Oh My!”
Time in Writing
In the first part of my post, The Concept of Time in Writing, I talked about the malleability of time, and the way in which we, as writers, use it as a concept and a reference. In this second part I will focus more on the way it affects us physically, as sentient beings; sometimes it doesn’t seem fluid at all. In fact, sometimes it feels remorselessly constricting.
The skills you garner to become that iconic author – be that a university/college degree, or through the university of life and the college of hard knocks – regardless of which route you take, it requires time to master. It takes time to acquire the experiences that you write about or use as believable backdrops for your narrations, and there are the countless hours spent researching to assure the readers’ suspension of disbelief: time, time and more time. Continue reading “Time in Writing”