Feeling overwhelmed? Watching your writing free time get swallowed by life commitments? I have three bits of advice from working writers, just for you...
First of all, one of our favorite bloggers, Yen Cheong, is profiled in GalleyCat today. Here's her secret to keeping up with a blog and a day-job:
"My blog posts are almost always short and when I'm busy they're shorter. Although I virtually always post daily, on a busy day, a post might consist of three sentences. I do get in early every day to go through my RSS reader and pick out the big media/publishing stories ... this is something I've always done -- and it's one of the aspects of publicity I enjoy the most -- so I don't spend any "extra" time doing it."
Next, author Dave Eggers gives an engaging, hyper-speed account of writing his first book in Brooklyn. Writing from 12 AM to 5 AM can produce some great new ideas.
Finally, our special guest this week was novelist Ed Park, and he had this advice for juggling a blog, a novel and an editing career. Check it out:
"Discipline will take you a long way—if you set aside time every day to write, you will find something to write, even if you don’t know what you’re doing as you approach the desk. It’s too easy not to write. One other bit of advice, which I need to take myself, is to get offline as much as possible."
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