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A Daily Schedule. A Good Idea Or Not?
The jury is still out on whether a reasonably rigid daily schedule is a good thing. For me.
Over the past months, I have been moving slowly into developing a daily schedule that improves my writing output. Damn. It's difficult.
Why? I am very much a free spirit and have been entrepreneurial for much of my working life. A strict schedule and entrepreneurialism do not go well together. To be a successful entrepreneur, one has to think on one's feet and always be ready for the unexpected. To me, writing, cannot be contained in a box. I can write at any time of the day and can write with the radio on or off; my office door closed or open and with any kind of background noise going on. Currently, there are about 20 items in my draft folder. Ideas that popped into my head with each one having about a 50–300 word count. In addition, I am working on a screenplay, a novel, and a nonfiction humorous book of my travels and some short stories. In other words, I am all over the map in the writing arena.
Fortunately, I am a light sleeper and can get by on around 6 hours of sleep a night. Being an early riser provides me with a couple of extra hours a day for either writing or…
