Everyday Canvas

Time Management for Writing

PROMPT: Have you ever put off anything important because you were writing? How serious is your WDC addiction?

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My WdC addiction is such that, even in the busiest of days, I check in or rather peek in at least three times or so.

And, have I ever put off anything important because I was writing? Let me count the ways.

The first thing to go, usually, is the housework. I used to like a clean orderly house, but forget it, even though I am retired now. If I have something to write, writing is the first priority. The ironing I cut down to minimal, and with the cooking, I always invent shortcuts even if I don’t know them...with questionable results sometimes, but what the heck!

I also do not take phone calls, which I don’t like to talk on the phone anyhow, and I don’t write letters to friends to be sent by snail mail, which I used to do way back when. It is usually the FB messages or rarely e-mail, nowadays.

And once, because I was doing the NaNo that year, I made my husband cancel a trip in November; instead, we went earlier, in September. It worked just fine. The weather was milder, to begin with.

Only with writing in this blog, although the writing doesn’t take more than a few minutes, I make the writing fit inside my everyday life, which explains why, sometimes, I post two to three days answers altogether in one blog entry. The bottom line is it gets done one way or another.