Writing hours in October 2015
Can you believe it? The end of the year is already just around the corner. At Ylva, we’re hard at work preparing our books for the holiday season. In fact, we just put together a video of all our holiday-themed books:
Of course, there’ll also be new romance novels and other books coming out in December. Two of them are mine: Just Physical and Time Management for Writers.
That’s what I spent most of my time on in October–getting both books ready for formatting and typesetting before I left for the book fair in Frankfurt. The book fair was as interesting as it was exhausting. Books and book people everywhere! It can get a little overwhelming, but it’s always fun, and this time, I had the pleasure of meeting fellow Ylva author G Benson, author of All the Little Moments.
After I returned from the book fair, I spent most of my time doing research about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and about life at the turn of the century. It’s going well, so I’m hoping to start writing my historical romance Shaken to the Core later this month, while at the same time translating 100,000 words of Damage Control as my personal NaNoWriMo challenge.
So, let’s take a look at my working hours in October:
Fiction Writing EditingResearchNonfiction WritingMarketing & AdministrationTOTAL
2015 - TOTAL1,141 hours793 hours144 hours249 hours265 hours2,592 hours
January175 hours88 hours---5 hours29 hours297 hours
February155 hours53 hours4 hours9 hours36 hours257 hours
March116 hours120 hours32 hours1 hours25 hours294 hours
April79 hours86 hours6 hours18 hours48 hours237 hours
May97 hours100 hours19 hours54 hours32 hours302 hours
June143 hours80 hours21 hours2 hours25 hours271 hours
July89 hours42 hours1 hours0 hours19 hours151 hours
August112 hours111 hours---33 hours12 hours268 hours
September82 hours72 hours15 hours118 hours16 hours303 hours
October93 hours41 hours46 hours9 hours23 hours303 hours
As you can see, I’ve been trying to keep my working hours a bit more reasonable and catch up on reading and TV shows on Sundays. I hope you’re all taking the time to relax a little too.
Have a good rest of the week!
Jae
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