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DEC 7, 2007
Writers Time Waster
A Writers Day
I may or may not be the average example of the normal writer, but I find that most of my literary companions keep the same general schedule as I do.
6:00 Get up and get the kids on the bus
7:30 Go back to Bed
8:30 Look at the alarm clock, slap the crap of it and go back to sleep
9:00 Crawl grumbling out of the bed and take a shower
9:20 Drink my first five cups of coffee while I wait for the worlds slowest computer to boot up.
9:30 Check my email
9:35 Look at the jobs I have to do for the day
9:36 Check my email
9:45 Get the last cup out of my first pot of coffee and check to see how many hits my sites had.
10:00 Check my email (Okay, to save time let's just automatically assume that my email gets checked every ten to fifteen minutes.)
10:30 Start on my first article of the day and set the same goal that I set every day, fifteen articles per day.
11:00 FInish article one, move to article two, get it set up to start and fix yet another in an endless line of cups of coffee. Again, we can assume one cup every fifteen to thirty minutes to save time. However, I never go beyond three pots per day.
12:00 Begin to my fourth article, stopping only to be interrupted by the phone. Sigh. Yet again, go ahead and place a telemarketer or relative call at every fifteen to thirty minutes.
12:30 Start pulling the first hairs from my head out of aggravation as the dog wants to go for a walk and a cat is sitting on my head. It is important to remember that I am a 20 year veteran writer, so I don't have that much hair to spare.
TIME TRAVEL AHEAD
4:00 Kids walk in the door from the bus, and I'm a nervous wreck because I still like 4 articles and on average I can only get in two between cooking, wife, phone kids fighting, kids playing, critters, and the occasional good natured visitor.
10:00 I'm tired, everyone goes to bed, but not me, no sir. I have to stay up and nock out two more articles that always seem to take about an hour longer than they should
MIDNIGHT: So tired I feel drunk as I email in the last article. Cannot imagine who would have a use for an article on the Malaysian Hissing Cockroach anyway, but now I'm the worlds foremost authority on the ugly little bastards. I stumble off to the bedroom. Lay down.
1:00 Oops, forgot to turn off the coffeepot. Back up, turn it off, back to bed.
6:00 Get up, get the kids on the bus...........God, I love being a writer!
