When I first started taking assignments, I would write them down in my planner on the due date and time and would often actually write the article the same day it was due.However, with everything I have going on in my life, I realized that odds were something was going to happen to prevent me from finishing my work on time. I started scheduling jobs a day or two before they were truly due in order to give myself a cushion.
This week, the odds were not in my favor. My husband was supposed to be home for the day on Friday so I scheduled a bunch of work to do that day. At 9 AM Friday morning, he got a call about a tile job. Since he's building his own business at the moment, he had to take the job. So I was left with a slew of work to be done while taking care of our sick three year old. I ended up only getting half of the work done that I had planned for the day.
Thankfully, my new system for scheduling saved me. Although I had scheduled the work to be done Friday, it was actually due over the next few days. I was able to complete all my jobs and get them turned in to the client by the real deadline.
How do you schedule your writing?
*Photo by Uffe Nielse.
1 comments:
I think you're right about scheduling in advance. I'm not working for clients right now, but working for myself, I try to be ahead of my goal for the week at all times.
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