Time keeps slipping away

And no, I just don’t mean today where we just literally lost an hour due to Day-light-savings-time. I look forward to the future where we reminisce about that silly Spring Forward-Fall Back thing we used to do.

I’m getting ready for my last full week at home. I’m still attending PT twice a week, I’ve got two other doctor appointments, a lunch with a writer friend, and two talks to local groups. Next week is packed. And I have an end of the month deadline.

I’m not sure I can fit another 40 hour work week into my schedule. But I will. Somehow.

Not my writing desk.

Because I love being an author. And right now, being an author means working a side job too. Hugh Howey, author of Wool, talked about what he thinks you need to be a successful writer. (Check out the full post here, it’s worth it if you’re on this writer’s path with me.)

The skinny according to Hugh? You have to work harder than anyone else.

I had lunch with a successful local self-published author and talked about being a writer. Work we can plan. Word count, how to get the book out there, what to promote, when to go free (if at all), release schedules, conferences, all things we can plan and focus on to be successful.

Then I told her I was having problems planning for the other parts of my life, like developing the ‘other Lynn.’ She laughed and said she had the same issue. Work takes over and Hugh’s right, you have to work harder than the next person. But you also have to live a life outside of your writing.

So that’s my challenge this year. How to balance everything on my plate and still come up smiling when a few peas fall off the edge.

First personal goal? To regain my health. And that means getting up and walking or working out during the day.  I’m putting time on my schedule now.