Setting priorities.
If you can’t do that… you’re not going to get things accomplished.
I love setting priorities. I just wish I was disciplined enough to open Outlook, and set goals, priorities, plan my day, etc.
Or Essential PIM, or some other equally good program.
Family first.
Unless you want to live a lonely life. I can’t imagine not having my wife as a sounding board for ideas. I get so many ideas, I’m sure she’s sick of hearing of yet ANOTHER idea – but she never really says anything.
Writing your novels.
This one’s next. If you don’t actually WRITE the thing, you’re never going to get anything written!
Think about that.
Screenplays next.
Screenplays are the furnace that tempers your novel writing. And if you sell one script and it gets filmed, you now have an income that allows you to sit at home in the middle of the woods and write. I finished my first screenplay long before I finished my first novel, and it helped shape my writing.
But essentially, people read novels over and over again, and rarely see the same movie over and over again. Well, I do – but i’m an exception.
Online Writer’s Group
If you’ve got a good one. But make sure you spend more time writing your novel than writing replies.
Social Media
This is the lowest priority. I tend to write all my tweets on the weekends. If I have one of those months where I’m working six day weeks (like this month)…
…I end up recycling my tweets. But if they’re good, nobody seems to care.
What’s first priority? Family. Or you won’t have one.
Next? your novel.
Keep that in mind!
Oh, coffee needs to be in there somewhere too.
