The day is about half over in terms of the work that I will be getting done before I head out of the office. I finished feeding my caffeine addiction hours ago and have already eaten lunch. The afternoon will be spent on tasks that differ greatly from those that I have already completed earlier today. That’s because I seem to have a brain that works incredibly differently in the morning than in the afternoon. I think that a lot of writers experience this.
In the mornings, I feel open to ideas and optimistic about the options that are available to me when playing around with different ideas. I feel more creative and more exploratory about things. By the afternoon, I feel disinterested in playing around with creative ideas. I feel more like taking care of rote tasks that have to be handled than I do in trying to write brilliant articles.
The good thing about the writing business is that there is a time for creativity and there is a time for the tedious tasks. For many months, I was trying to force myself into a pattern of getting up and getting going on the articles that had to be written for the day. However, I’ve started working on doing more creative things in the morning in terms of planning out business changes and working on the articles that are going to be more creative in their content.
After lunch is when I tend to tackle the keyword articles and the accounting that must be done. I like to think that I still manage to insert some creativity into things like link articles but it’s okay if they aren’t quite as thought-filled as my plans for my writing business are, I think. And I think it’s important that writers pay attention to when they work best and allow that to dictate their schedules rather than allowing deadlines to determine everything.
Question of the Day: Is your writing schedule dictated by your own needs or the needs of your clients?
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