lets work together Topic Tuesday #20: Time Management

[Brayon]

So for the past couple of weeks, I missed posting a Topic Tuesday. The reason being was I went back to school. It's the University of Phoenix, online, designed for people are non-traditional who have Home/Work responsibilities, and has certain attendance and participation requirements. The class week runs Tuesday thru Monday. Now that we are in week three, I feel I'm starting to get a schedule that works for School, Family, and my passion for Writing.

 

This is Time Management, which each of us has our own way to do. For me, I do home chores first, then schoolwork, and at the end of the day I work on my writing. I have several projects going, so I only get to work on one at a time now, in order to focus on getting that one done. I have a bit more time than the average person being disabled, and not working, but my goal is to get this degree and get back into the job market.

 

So How about you? How do you handle Time Management?

[MacGreg]

Minus the crying part, but no less accurate:

 

[MacGreg]

All right, this depiction is not entirely true. I don't typically ever "f_ck off". But the timeline is pretty close to how I feel about my own creative process. I am not as disciplined as many, where I schedule out a chunk of time each day devoted to writing. For me, writing has to be organic... and that's where I fail, because I don't have the luxury of free time to allow that process to happen naturally. You'd think by now I would have figured out how to make it work.

[Mikiesboy]

i have schedules for lots of things ... i get up at 5:30am most days.  I make a coffee, grab my oatmeal for breakfast and sit down and write until about 7am. Everyday.  Then i go to work.. at home at night i rarely have time or the energy to write. And for some strange reason my Husband likes me to be part of His evenings, which i rather like too, so i rarely write at night time.  I  can often do some editing in the evenings however.  My weekends i can squeeze in a little more.

 

That is how i have written my next story which has maybe one or two more chapters to go. I began writing it May 25th.  Which is better than the first story which took me over year and this one is longer...

[MrM]

I have to let my time flow around responsibilities and when my muse is tugging at me.  This doesn’t always fit a regular schedule for my muse. My responsibilities, lately, have been many and they don’t care if I have a muse or not.

 

I hate being responsible!