I’ve thought about this a lot in the last three or four weeks – and every time I go to write it, I realise it’s difficult to pin down my ‘average’ day.  But Chris Brogan outlined his day, so I thought I’d give it a try 😉
There are a couple of commonalities, but it’s been difficult to tie everything into each other lately. Â But I thought I’d give it a try.
My ‘job’.
I am a full-time writer. Â So I copywrite, and if I’m not copywriting, I do other content for my blogs, or write fiction. Â I’ve been off fiction for a while, but I’m working on most of it with a vengeance again.
The morning:
7am – if he doesn’t wake me up at 6:30, I wake up mostly naturally sometime between 7 and 7:30. Â My first thing I do, and I hate, is check my email for messages overnight from my clients/the team I sub-contract with. Â It means my morning might be started on a good note or not, depending on edits and stuff that have come in overnight.
I tend *not* to check in on Facebook unless I really need to. Â I get the kids ready for school – and if I’m not feeling sick, I grab brekfast. Â I’m trying to teach myself to do that more often, because I think my body confuses nausea with hunger first thing and it has a knock on effect.
8:30am – Kids are normally out the door by now – so I do email, and blogging and anything else I feel like. Â Right now, in the morning I’m doing fiction writing and writing until lunch. Â Today, and for the last six days, I’ve been working on my dissertation. Â Next week, the kids go on holiday and I’ll be working on my novel for its final work through before handing in.
I do Facebook quite a lot during the morning, between writing, in snatches.
If I’m blocked, I blog.
Lunch
Lucky to stop for lunch – working from home means that I can do it whenever, but I normally forget.
Afternoon
In the afternoon, I’m a great copywriter. Â I don’t know why the difference exists between morning and afternoon, but it is. Â I write until around 4pm, when the kids get home.
Evening
In the evening, I’m on Facebook, I’m interacting with friends, I’m doing my best impression of a meerkat and listening to the world, with my head stuck above my ‘burrow’.  I collapse into bed around 11pm, after a hot bath, one last check on Facebook, and either games on my iPad, or one last bout of writing.  If I can’t sleep, I knit.
And Tuesday nights, I game with friends – we’re currently roleplaying through a 40K Rouge Trader game, where I’m the Captain.
Intermingled with all of this, I keep an eye on several self-publishing support groups on Facebook, and put the finishing touches on a lot of the things that I’m setting up for launch post dissertation (this Thursday to hand it in!)
Today’s tasks
- 2 Blog posts for my client’s equality blogs
- 4 blog posts to get my blogs ahead – including bi-polarbearsÂ
- 4k of my dissertation (2k writing and 2k editing)
- Press release for DarknessPD.
- Set-up for new community site for self publishers.
- Chapter edits on two books for clients
I’ve come *a long way* since my last ‘day in the life’ post. Â Seriously. Â Things have changed so much – I own two limited companies in the UK and our last year’s turnover was great.
Kai is a writer, author and avid reader. A mental health advocate, Ludosport athlete and coder. She’s the mother of two young adults, owned by two cats, and lives with her beloved in the Cotswolds.
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