How to be a Successful Working Writer
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It can be difficult to get some writing done when you’re a working writer. Your best and productive hours are usually spent at work. When you come home, you are exhausted and stressed out. There are also appointments, shopping, cooking, washing laundry, and cleaning house vying for your attention. This just adds to your frustration and exhaustion. How can you find the time and energy to write?
In this e-book, I offer 16 time-honored tips for you to get some writing done. You must think of small and doable as well as realistic goals when you work full time. However, just because you can’t spend two hours writing every day doesn’t mean you can’t do thirty minutes to one hour of writing a day, in ten, fifteen, twenty or thirty-minute intervals.
Irene S. Roth
Irene S. Roth, MA is an academic and freelance writer. She writes academically, for teens and tweens and adults. When she isn't writing, she is teaching. She is also pursuing a Master's of Social Work Degree.
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How to be a Successful Working Writer - Irene S. Roth
How to be a Successful Working Writer
Irene S. Roth
Copyright 2019 Irene S. Roth
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Tip 1: Try to Write Every Day
Tip 2: Schedule Your Writing Time Every Week
Tip 3: Create a List of All Extraneous Activities after Work
Tip 4: Don’t Waste Time
Tip 5: Set your Long-Term Writing Goals
Tip 6: Set Your Short-Term Writing Goals
Tip 7: Prioritize Your Writing Goals
Tip 8: Set Realistic Goals
Tip 9: Celebrate Small Accomplishments
Tip 10: Compartmentalize Your Life
Tip 11: Practice Extreme Self-Care
Tip 12: Practice Mindful Tech
Tip 13: Create Times for Solitude
Tip 14: Take a Nap After Work
Tip 15: Unwind by Meditating
Tip 16: Have a Snack or Eat Dinner Before Writing
Conclusion
Resources
Appendix
About the Author
Introduction
One of the hardest things is to be a working writer. It can be hard to focus and be successful in your writing career when you’re exhausted. Few of you know how to switch gears after work so that you can write in a focused manner. Writing is hard work. It requires consistency and efficiency to be most successful. But how can writers achieve this if they are tired and worn out a lot of the time?
To be sure, writers, whether they work full-time or part-time, have a limited amount of time and energy at their disposal. Writing doesn’t come easily in such situations because your brains are pushed and pulled in so many different directions. There are always so many other obligations in your lives, leaving little time for writing. Your stress and anxiety levels build, and your writing is usually the first thing to be left undone.
In addition, your world seems to be running faster and faster every day. You feel like you must keep up with it, regardless of how senseless it may seem to you. But is this quick pace healthy? Is it productive for a writer? Is it in line with completing your writing goals and being successful? Does all this rushing around make you more efficient? Is it conducive to creating a writing life that is balanced?
I believe that your fast-paced world has skewed your attention and exhausted you completely. You are constantly split and divided between tasks. Multi-tasking is the new mantra in your culture, and it has seeped into your writing life as well. But do these mindless