time management for writers

Time management for writers is important if you have trouble getting everything done on your to-do list each day; here’s something that might help.

Divide your workday into 3 separate sections or even time blocks.

Here are some sample sections or time blocks.

1st Section or Time Block

Spend one section of your day working on your current work-in-progress.

That might be a novel, a nonfiction book, or an article for a magazine, or even a grant proposal, for example.

2nd Section or Time Block

Spend another section of your day on affiliate marketing and/or looking for new writing assignments.

For affiliate marketing, search for new products that would appeal to your target market.

Find out about these products, then promote the good ones to the people on your mailing list and to visitors to your site (the one you have created specifically for this target market).

For new writing assignments, search online job boards and ads in e-zines for writers.

Two of my favorite e-zines for writers are the Morning Coffee and Freelance Writing Jobs.

If you write for business clients, or magazines, you might send out a few letters of introduction (LOI) to potential clients and send out some queries to magazine editors.

3rd Section or Time Block

Spend the third section of your day on marketing and promotion of your own products and services.

This is when you might guest blog for someone or write posts for your own site(s).

Decide how much time you want to spend on activities in each of these 3 sections.

For example, you might want to devote 3 hours to writing (section 1) and just 1 hour on affiliate marketing (section 2) and then 2 hours on marketing your own products and services (section 3).