Work ethic

Jeff VanderMeer has an amazing post where he posts his freelance work schedule, involved getting up at 7:15…

7:15 – 7:45: Exercise bike (excellent opportunity to read books for review)
8:00: Breakfast of four eggs and two pieces of wheat toast
8:30 – 11:30: Writing of first-draft fiction in longhand, sometimes at a coffee shop (nothing takes more mental energy for me, so preferably must be fresh”¦or do it late at night, sometimes), with some book review writing on the tail end of that time if I run out of fiction inspiration

I do need to work more exercise into my life, but right now mine works something like this:

somewhere between 10am to 11:45am – wake up
12:00-lunch (breakfast?) with friend
1:00-2:00pm-blip through email, read rss feeds
2-4pm-blog for pay, blog for me, freelance articles, any administrivia
4-6pm-editing for pro blog position
6-12midnight-dinner, hang out with wife, house stuff
midnight-4 or 5am-write fiction, write articles, write write write

And that’s pretty flexible, other than the 4-6 editing shift, I may stay up later, go to bed earlier, etc.

I’m up a bit late at 5:30am here because I ended up outlining a short story in excruciating detail.

The one thing I do need to do is get a definite work out schedule. I’ve been flailing around since leaving the dayjob to get into a regular pattern there. The basement being redone (slowly) has also meant I don’t have a space down there, but I could like, you know, play Wii boxing everyday, I just am not prioritzing properly…

Filed under the topic On Writing: Business on December 14th 2007 at 5:37 am. You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this entry to keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback.