A Day in the Life of a Writer
[image error]I recently wrote a post for Novel Publicity called "This is the year you publish your novel: A road map to getting it done."
I'm a Jr. Project Manager with them. I'm also the Marketing Director for Evolved Publishing and a paranormal and fantasy author for young adults and children… oh and a mother of three and planning a wedding for this year.
Someone asked me how I do it all and if I had a post that shows my average day.
As to how I do it all, I'm not sure. I just keep going until it's all done. 2011 was an exciting year for me. I published three books, took on several new clients and got engaged. This year proves to be even more amazing as I plan a wedding in a castle in Nova Scotia, publish at least 8 or 9 more books, and help my clients and the authors at Evolved rock the world with their books!
So, what my day looks like:
5 a.m. Get up, kiss Dmytry, get on my computer and check emails.
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This is Dmytry. My tall, sexy Russian fiancé. You can see why the "Kiss Dmytry" part of my day is in bold. And italics!
6 a.m. Still responding to emails, seriously? Omg.
7 a.m. The emails are multiplying like horny rabbits. I'm not even sure how to stay on top of them.
7:20 a.m. Get kids up and ready for school. Take dogs out to go potty. Deal with whiny 5 year old who's too tired to go to school because she wouldn't go to sleep when she was supposed to the night before. Find shoes the 7 year old somehow lost between last night and this morning. No you cannot take your stuffy to school. No you cannot take your DSi to school. No you cannot stay home to play on the computer.
8:20 a.m. Grab a snack before heading back to the computer. Kiss Dmytry.
8:30 a.m. Check my files for each client, start working on their projects.
12:00 p.m. Come up for air. Kiss Dmytry. Grab another bite to eat. Take dogs out again. Get on business call or attend meeting with client.
2 p.m. Meetings done (hopefully) and back to work. Kiss Dmytry. Update social media sites. Spend a totally useless hour watching random videos my friends have posted on Facebook. Thanks guys.
3:30 p.m. Crap, kids will be home in less than 30 minutes and I still haven't done any writing. But I haven't done any work for my HTML class so I can learn web design either. Open my files and work on coding.
4:00 p.m. Kids are home. Hugs and kisses for everyone. Yes, even Dmytry. 
Get kids snacks, take dogs out again. Check school paperwork and homework. Talk about their day.
5 p.m. Finish HTML course work while kids are playing on their Nook, DSi and Leapster.
7 p.m. Oh crap, we haven't given the kids dinner. Dmytry and I scramble to get dinner ready for them (and us, I guess.) Thank goodness for canned stew.
8 p.m. Back to the computer. Email friends who are coming to the wedding. Talk about makeup and dresses. (I know, total girl.) Kiss Dmytry, a lot!
9 p.m. Get kids ready for bed. Kisses and hugs for all (including Dmytry.) Read bedtime story. Halfway through, stop reading bedtime story because this book is really awful and who would write something like this for kids anyways? The main character is totally obnoxious and unlikable and I do not want my kids behaving that way or learning from her. Pick a new book and remind myself to finish my children's chapter book series.
10 p.m. Send out review requests to book blogger for Forbidden Mind and Lexie World while hushing kids every 10 minutes and dealing with 400 million potty breaks.
11 p.m. Kids are quiet, finally. Work on books, then spend an hour watching "How I Met Your Mother" on Netflix.
1 a.m. Take out dogs again. Crawl into bed with Dmytry. Yes, there are more kisses. No, I am not going into more detail than that!
Variations to this routine include but are not limited to: Laundry day, grocery shopping day, family night on Friday night where no work gets done past 4 p.m. until the kids are in bed, sick days where less work gets done and summer break where it's a miracle anything gets done at all. Ever.
And there you have it folks. A day in my life. Isn't it exciting?
