Comments on: scheduling the freelance writer’s day

By: Julie Roads

Julie Roads — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:42:47 +0000

Well, Heather, we do schedule cleaning and dates…and we do clean together…so they kind of are cleaning dates!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:13:11 +0000

Hi Julie, I’m so glad I found your blog! I’ve been whirring and whizzing myself, just going nuts really. I too plan to spend the weekend writing a weekly schedule to follow for say, a month. I hate schedules but really need to focus my energy.

For I second I thought I read that you schedule cleaning dates. Now THERE’S a good idea! These days that’s on the bottom of the totem pole.

Look forward to reading your blog and learning from you. Happy Friday!

By: Julie Roads

Julie Roads — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:11:05 +0000

Hi Deb, Lorie, Audrey and Misty! I’m so sorry for lumping this response together, but I’m doing it because the clock it ticking! I can’t wait to start this experiment with you!

By: misty

misty — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:26:34 +0000

Hi Julie, I loved your list…I could have written it myself! I run my site, My Inspiration Lounge, from home with my 3-month old right by my side. My 4-year old stayed home this week since she was sick. It was completely chaotic. I say test out the structured calendar and see how it works! I think you probably find something in between that works best! I need to do something similar…

Cheers!
Misty with My Inspiration Lounge
http://www.myinspirationlounge.com

By: Lorie

Lorie — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:55:12 +0000

It definitely has its advantages. I like to schedule down time in too! And the fun part about the weekends is the schedule is more relaxed! Makes them even MORE fun!!

By: Audrey

Audrey — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:25:33 +0000

Great idea, I’d love to have a go…

By: --Deb

--Deb — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:43:53 +0000

I’ve never been able to really schedule my day like that–much as it sounds good, in theory! And yet, I’m a very structured person, so you’d think I’d like that….

By: Julie Roads

Julie Roads — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:32:31 +0000

Okay, I’m waving the white flag of surrender with you, Ron! I totally hear you…but let me flirt with the idea of a schedule NOT making my days look like that…because they presently do!

By: Ron Miller

Ron Miller — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:29:08 +0000

Hey Julie:
I get that. Two-year olds need a lot of structure or they can drive their parents bananas. I’m not sure I could impose structure on myself even if I wanted to. Consider my afternoon so far.

Even before this post today, I told myself at Noon that I was going to take a half hour to peruse my RSS feeds in Google Reader and try to find some ideas for my newsletter (and for tomorrow’s morning blog post). I ended up taking 45 minutes and was about to work on a training course I’m developing when my Google Calendar beeped at me that I had a 1:00, which I had forgotten about. (Thank goodness for Calendar notifier.)

The training was pushed aside while I wrote some questions and prepared for the meeting. I got off the, realized I hadn’t looked at Twitter for 2 hours, checked that, checked the headlines, opened PowerPoint to finally work on the training, then saw your post. Opened it read it, responded to it and it was after 2. Went downstairs, had some soup, looked up and my son was home from school. Talked to him, came back up, checked my email, saw all the responses to this post including yours. Came back here, wrote this and now finally at 3:00 I am turning my attention to the training.

You see why structure can’t work. There is none. I don’t have two year olds running into my office either (although I think that would be a fantastic distraction), but my work life is chaotic because I take on so much. It’s just nature of the beast.

Ron

By: Julie Roads

Julie Roads — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:11:27 +0000

Dave! The gauntlet has been thrown!