Growing your Work at Home Business

So you have all your childcare issues worked out, but you sense you’re still struggling with time management. Here are some tips to help you get back on track with your business goals. Identify the highest and best use of your time If you’re in direct sales, the highest and best use of your time [...]

Organize Your Writing Life

What used to be a simple routine of writing in the morning before going to work has morphed into a full-time job of writing as often as possible while also keeping track of a whole list of publicity appointments, editing, more writing projects and, of course, being a mom and a wife. I am here [...]

Free Online Program for Tracking Your Submissions

I just signed up for this cool free online program where I can keep track of all my submissions, word counts on manuscripts, publishers, etc. It even gives graphs of your writing progress. I’m still learning about it, but wanted to share. Anyone else use this site? Check it out: http://www.luminarypub.com/services/writersdb/

Writing Takes Discipline!

I have to sit down and work. I have to make goals. I have to meet goals. I’ve also found out that the more discipline I have in life the better my writing goes. I learned that when I have the discipline to eat right and exercise I sleep better, wake up with energy, and [...]

Office Must-Haves…

My name is Tricia and I confess … I have office envy. I’ve been talking my some of my novelist friends lately and they have pretty nice offices … A comfy chair? A lamp? A mini fridge??? Sweet! I share my 12 x 12 office with four other people. We have five computer stations, and [...]

Promotion: to do or not to do

How much time do you spend on promoting? That’s a question I ask myself periodically. Lately it has crept up again. Promotion for an author is becoming more and more important. But where do you draw the line? If you spend too much time promoting, that means you aren’t writing. How do you balance promoting [...]

No Time for Doubt

Gina Conroy’s thought provoking poll won’t leave me alone this week. Here’s her Q, followed by three choices: “What is your top writing interruption?” “Job. Family. Procrastination/Self-doubt.” No surprise that over 50% of the votes go to the voices in our head telling us we can’t do it, or that we don’t have time. I [...]

Time Management 101: Marketing and Speaking

Just a smidge of what I do in regards to marketing and my speaking schedule. Marketing: 1. I’ve hired a nearly-fulltime assistant to help with marketing. She posts to my blogs, formats my newsletters, sends out packages, etc. 2. I fit my radio interviews, etc. into my calendar. I also schedule in things like email [...]

Time Management 101: Deadlines

How to handle deadlines! 1. My family used to MOAN during deadline month. They basically never saw Mom. For the last few books I’ve been trying spread out the deadlines. I schedule in daily writing times for every project through the months, and I do my best to meet those goals. If I can accomplish [...]

Time Management 101: Get a Puppy!

Before I get into the meat of “how I do it all” I just wanted to add this to the last tip… If you really, really want to get a lot of writing done, get a dog to lay on your feet. Last January, we got a new puppy–1/2 Scottie, 1/2 Pomeranian. He was tiny [...]

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