Time Keeps on Slipping
On June 25, 2010 I attended the Black Writers Reunion and Conference (BWRC) and gained great insight. I enjoyed the conference and gained some extremely valuable tools. But, like with any tools, if you don;t use them, they will get rusty. So yesterday I took some time to review my notes from BWRC.
The first workshop I attended was "Write Some Cents into It". Nakia Laushaul presented priceless tips. She told us to keep our rejection letters to prove that we are trying to get a book deal/be in the book business and to keep flyers from book signings we have.
I read on and saw a statement i wrote that made me stop and reflect, "How much time are you spending trying to run a business?" After thinking for a few minutes I realized that I have FOUR full time jobs. How is that possible? Let me break it down real quick. 1. my day job, 2. as an author-preneur, 3. wife, 4. mother. (Yes, being a wife and mother are full time jobs, they are hard work, they never end and one has to continuously work on her craft to be better.) So how do I divide up my day with four full time jobs? I'm still trying to figure that out. (One goal is to cut out my full time day job.)
After reading these notes, I decided to break down my job as an author-preneur. I spend about ten hours a day working on book related activities from tweets, to emails, to setting up accounts, to checking those accounts, to researching new opportunities, blah, blah, blah. Did you notice writing wasn't even included in that list? I'm spending ten hours a day and I'm not even doing what I love the most. But believe it or not, I do like the "other stuff". Every day I am learning more of what it means to be an author-preneur.
I'm going to keep up the hard work because I know in the end it will be worth it.
The first workshop I attended was "Write Some Cents into It". Nakia Laushaul presented priceless tips. She told us to keep our rejection letters to prove that we are trying to get a book deal/be in the book business and to keep flyers from book signings we have.
I read on and saw a statement i wrote that made me stop and reflect, "How much time are you spending trying to run a business?" After thinking for a few minutes I realized that I have FOUR full time jobs. How is that possible? Let me break it down real quick. 1. my day job, 2. as an author-preneur, 3. wife, 4. mother. (Yes, being a wife and mother are full time jobs, they are hard work, they never end and one has to continuously work on her craft to be better.) So how do I divide up my day with four full time jobs? I'm still trying to figure that out. (One goal is to cut out my full time day job.)
After reading these notes, I decided to break down my job as an author-preneur. I spend about ten hours a day working on book related activities from tweets, to emails, to setting up accounts, to checking those accounts, to researching new opportunities, blah, blah, blah. Did you notice writing wasn't even included in that list? I'm spending ten hours a day and I'm not even doing what I love the most. But believe it or not, I do like the "other stuff". Every day I am learning more of what it means to be an author-preneur.
I'm going to keep up the hard work because I know in the end it will be worth it.
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