This month, I’m providing a writer’s technology tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you in your writing goals.
Today’s tip: Technology for Time Management.
Managing your time as a writer is critical to your success. Most of us have day jobs that pay the bills while we carve out time for our passion for writing. Full time writers need the discipline to write full time. It’s not an easy thing to do.
Enter the myriad of time management tools available to writers. Whether it is simple notepads, index cards, notebooks, or digital time management tools, it is critical for a writer to have a time management discipline for managing time and tasks.
Angela Booth is all over the time management needs of a writer. In her series of articles on time management, she starts off with something we all need to understand: See yourself as a competent writer. It all starts with our attitude to writing doesn’t it?
Her next tip is to “list everything.” And whether it is analog like paper or digital like Outlook, the key is that if you don’t capture it, “it doesn’t happen.”
There’s more, of course. The key is: manage your time and use analog or digital tools to do it.
Scot
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Michelle 09.09.07 at 11:36 am
Scot–
What a great series–we writers could probably all use our time more wisely. The best thing that’s happened to my time management as a writer is having a child–I’ve been forced to learn to do in one hour what I might previously have done in four.
The idea of “seeing yourself as competent” is good–makes perfect sense!