job offer in the family. I have all my time available for writing 7 days a week in big blocks of time daily free time. I write all the time and my writing is the dominant focus of my lifestyle.
This causes me to get lots done a day in Pomodoro 25 minute cycles in a 74 minute average cycle alternating between writing in Scrivener and in https:\\writer.bighugelabs.com. I do about 9.5
cycles a day on average in an 11.5 hour writing day.
My Ideal Situation
Now I am a full-time professional writer by occupation and just call myself a homemaker on taxes. I have writing goals. My lifestyle is all arranged around writing with the correct writing tools
and technology. I write in Scrivener, the best all around tool for writing. I have written up and solved for myself 47 possible reasons to fail to write a nonfiction book. I have a goal to write
26 manuscripts in one year of 64,500 words each, averaging one every 2 weeks for a whole year. I have another goal to complete 15 research note-taking of Google queries related to writing, time
and productivity in one year. I am working on preparing a Vision of Success to motivate my writing.
I have all my days off to write, not just weekends. This gives me big blocks of free time, all the time I want to write with. I have chosen to divide up the big blocks of free time into 74 minute
chunks of time and carry out a standard writing cycle in each 74 minute carved out chunk of free time. I am no longer bored and needing to fill my time with self-entertainment. With plenty of
stimulation for my mind from the Google web query I am processing a cycle, I am feeding and nourishing my mind regularly each day. I am showing recent signs of fixing my spaciness mental
difficulty.
I have a disability so I don't work full-time for more money. My spouse works in a career job offer and makes enough money to feed me. Because I am a homemaker I do regular chores work during the day instead of working at a job offer. More on my chores later in this blog post.
I used to feel sorry for myself as I had no job offer to go to in the mornings during the week and I had a far more isolated lifestyle than most working people have. Now I am very happy to write
full-time. I have recreated my lifestyle as the chosen lifestyle of a professional writer with a blog platform.
I am no longer doing self-entertainment with no goals - now I am on writing goals as a professional writer with a writing lifestyle choice. I used to babble in yWriter5 some content about writing
a yet unfinished novel or do architectural drafting. Before that I used to watch TV several hours a day. I no longer do that.
My one year writing goals are to draft 26 books of 64,500 words each every 2 weeks and am working on the first of these drafts now. My chosen genres are:
A. writing
B. time management
C. the time management of time
D. productivity
E. writing productively
My blog is called writetimeproductivity.blogspot.com.
In the past I was spending time writing in yWriter5 for a yet unfinished novel and a travelogue and occasionally new books which I quit working on. I stopped all that to only work on two writing
software packages now:
A. Scrivener for Windows Version 1.9.9
B. https://writer.bighuglabs.com distraction-free editor
I am learning new and easy ways to write a nonfiction book and I am growing as a writer over the last 2 weeks and in the next 2 weeks. I plan to do a Google research query on: "how to write a
nonfiction book" to learn much more about writing a nonfiction book in the easiest possible ways. I will start that tomorrow.
My current productivity rate is 9.99483 words per minute in an 11.5 hour standard writing day. Notice that 4.5 hours are missing from my day. I don't know quite how to reclaim that time as I tend
to stay awake in bed for several hours after stopping my writing day at 10:30 PM to go upstairs and prepare for bed. I did have two ideas however:
A. Do a last journaling Pomodoro cycle in my journaling notebook just before bed
B. Outline a new book idea into 16 chapters (15.5) while trying to get to sleep and note the outline of chapters in my notebook in the bathroom not to forget it
My typical writing cycle is 74 minutes in length and my cycle routine consists of:
A. Pre-writing ritual: Get a drink, set my XNoteStopwatch computer timer for 25 minutes, start up my application and start to write from my notes.
B. Write/compose for 25 minutes in either Scrivener or https://writer.bighugelabs.com
C. Set timer again for 25 minutes and do a Google web search research note-taking session and note one to several blog posts or articles.
D. Do 4 - 6 minutes on housework, chores, small to do's or cleaning up my writing office in my dining room.
E. Washroom 2 minutes
F. 14 minutes on a writing to do from my to do list, timed leaving it incomplete
G. Repeat
For fun and relaxation I go out in the car with my husband or I go outside to the back deck and write in my journal or I read Amazon ebooks. Sometimes I take a full day off to travel on vacation
which changes the scene and gets me more alert.
I started a new blog: https://writetimeproductivity.blogspot.com and I intend to write 6 blog posts a week on it, averaging one a day like I am now in this blog post article.
I always write as my default action and I do chores, people and exercising in breaks from writing. Writing is the major focus of my day, whether I am blogging, journaling/freewriting/outlining or
writing a chapter of my book draft. If I am not drafting copy I am spending just as much time recently doing Google research of my main topic: make the time to write.
There are several problems with an ideal situation to write in.
A. No one understands why you write so much
B. I have a swelled foot from lack of circulation from sitting down for so long
(that's why I do housework in my cycles, to get me standing and walking around)
C. I'm not having enough fun
D. I dropped and didn't finish some old projects of mine like cruises and Egypt
I got a new book idea: to write my own version of a "2K to 10K" book about my goal of reaching high word counts a day writing. I outlined the book and determined which chapters should be in the
book last night.
You can't write all the time unless you enjoy the act of writing and research equally.
This will become the preface or foreward of my recent book draft I am working on now.
Chores and Being a Homemaker
Chores are part of my regular day as I am a homemaker and a spouse of a career worker.
I divide up chores into 3 - 5 minutes to do at the end of each 74 minute cycle and don't do it a whole 15 minutes at a time, to spend the most time a day in a lot of 74 minute cycles.
I do around 9 - 11 cycles a day and 4 * 10 or 40 - 60 minutes of chores a day.
My spouse does the grocery shopping, bathrooms, cooking and laundry so I don't do much chores. Today I did kitchen cleanup and tidied the dining room writer's office desk and started on the floor
of the dining room.
All my life is now optional (mainly) and all can be delayed so I have a low stress life which for me is an ideal situation.
Writing related chores include:
I. Backing up the computer
II. Printing out copy
III. Ordering new supplies
IV. Putting things away
V. Tidying my writing office
Since I am now doing chores and housework at the end of my 74 minute cycles daily, I am doing the exact opposite of lazy. I am very lazy about non-writing work and to do's and tend to put off
things that are not writing. For example, I tend to delay on walking and going out.
Chores are related to distractions and interruptions as they also are an annoying fact of life.
Growth as a writer and adopting a new lifestyle in the last 2 weeks
I have made a writer's lifestyle change recently and I am now happier and more satisfied with my life than before.
1. I blog once a day. I do longer blog posts. One was 9,400 words and I did it in just one day!
2. I write journal exercises (7 of them) in https://writer.bighugelabs.com first thing in the early afternoon and set up new exercises to do for the next day after that.
3. I am working on the first of 26 64,500 word books, not my big tome of a book rewrite.
4. I am using a complex notebook system at present. My notebooks keep track of research, ideas, project status and notes from ebooks.
My notebooks at present are:
I. Time log pad
II. make time to write research journal, 200 pages
III. how to write a nonfiction book research journal, 200 pages
IV. writing productively research journal, 200 pages
V. big idea notebook with section for Amazon ebook noting in it and new book idea tracking section
VI. writing exercise journal diary Chronological
VII. writing exercise journal diary Nonchronological
VIII. project diary travel journal, Younghusband author
IX. blog notes and blog post planning notebook
X. goal-setting notebook
XI. Scrivener notes notebook
XII. calendar/planner/month-at-a-glance, address book and goals mini-notebooks inside it
XIII. black three-hole project printout binder, empty for now
XIV. journaling exercises notebook
5. I am working on a back burner project in 25 minutes a day, 195 techniques I personally use that prevent failures in writing a nonfiction book and make writing a nonfiction book easy and provide
ways to cheat and copy. There will be one technique per country in the world. It will be a Part A and Part B book as I'll do 20 core techniques repeated in both books and 175 new techniques in each book for 195 techniques to both books. It will take me two years on the back burner to write the first draft of both books at 215 words per day in 8 minutes timed.
6. I am reading 2 Amazon Unlimited ebooks a day and taking notes on them. I write up book reports on each ebook read and evaluate them.
7. I time my writing sessions and research session with XNoteStopwatch computer timer and count the words in each writing session.
8. I time log my time at all times.
9. I have created a new go-to-bed evening routine that gives me one extra writing Pomodoro cycle started just before bed, doing the research portion of the cycle just before going to sleep.
10. I have started to fill in my project diary travel guide 2 page daily spreads on what my time log said I did that day and my session times and word counts daily and how many cycles I did that
day. I write down what project I worked on morning, afternoon and evening in it.
11. I use Amazon orders as a way to reward myself for progress made every 3 chapters of my book.
12. I have set a goal to do 1.2 chapters of my book draft a day every day for 6.3333 days a week of progress on my book draft.
13. I am working on the first of 15 Google queries that I am making sub-topic, alphabetically organized notes about. I will do 15 research notebooks about a research query in a year.
14. I have determined from market research book measurements that the ideal book length in my genre is just 64,500 words long, 15.5 chapters long and I do 28 scenes per chapter.
15. I have started doing goal-setting regularly as a part of my new writing growth-oriented lifestyle and have started a goal-setting notebook to record my goals in.
16. I have started to proofread, grammar check, spell-check and word count each completed chapter and blog post before saving it using both Grammarly and Hemingway.
17. I have started to maximize my daily word count totals very high so that I can write a book on this process of creating high word count totals.
18. I have one new blog post planned on my process towards "2K to 10K" to do on my own blog. This is my first step to a new book on the subject or rather the second step.
19. I plan to write more on the knowledge, time and enthusiasm triangle and extend it to two more dimensions.
20. I have started to do 80/20 research querying: 80 percent in one research query and 20 percent divided between two alternate research queries.
21. My immediate days goals are:
I. Get up early each day
II. Fix insomnia
III. Start "2K to 10K" book
22. I have started to use a writer's knapsack with all my notebooks in it and the current writing instruction book I am reading
Growth as a writer and adopting a new lifestyle in next 2 weeks
In the next two weeks I hope to do the following to improve my writer's lifestyle:1. Start back burner book day for 25 minutes daily
2. Find a whole book series idea for auto-generation canned text idea
3. Letter my research journals from A - Z according to sub-topics use of A - Z.
4. Get better at my writing.
5. Tidy up my workspace in the dining room, my writer's home office.
6. Determine my 15 queries to do in one year.
7. Determine my top 26 book ideas to do in one year.
8. Get new printer ink cartridge.
9. Journal my freewrite easy to write book on journaling and freewriting a book based on daily warmups.
10. Writing is my new purpose and in the next two weeks I will write up a mission/purpose statement in the little goals notebook in my calendar/planner. I no longer do predominantly self-
entertainment as I did in the past. Writing is very important to me and is my current passion. I now call myself a professional writer.
11. I pick one blog post idea from the 57 Blog post ideas list to blog daily.
12. I am starting my black project printout binder in the next two weeks that I purchased from Staples. I will put my first book draft printout in it when it's all written so that I can add notes
of what to insert into it.
13. In the next two weeks I will get the writing fast/write a book in 14 days printout binder from the library and will start to use tips about writing fast.
14. In the next two weeks I will write a Vision of Success for my writing career and look at it daily.
15. In the next two weeks I will write the idea premise single sentence and jacket blurb copy for each of the first three books I plan to write and their chapter hierarchy table of contents structures.
16. In the next two weeks I will fill in the research section of my project travel journal with two book titles in each of 6 * 3 sections so 36 book ideas by book title noted in my project travel diary.
17. In the next two weeks I will start saving all copy from https://writer.bighugelabs.com in a txt file in Notepad as it does not save my copy forever in the cloud. I will save after each writing
session.
Conclusion
This blog post describes how my situation to write nonfiction books is ideal for a professional writer as I now have all my time free to write 7 days a week, except for travel days a year for 30 days a year of travel.
I have described how chores make up part of my writing lifestyle.
I have documented the changes I have made to start growing as a professional writer in the last two weeks of time and what changes I plan to make in the next two weeks to grow as a professional
writer.
My growth as a professional writer is precious to me. Writing nonfiction books is now my passion and delight. I am highly satisfied with my life.
From a description of my life changes, you can also make similar changes to your own life and implement my writing system and lifestyle in your own life.
If you want to write a nonfiction book, go to it!
Blogger:
Julie Nield
Indexed Under: ideal situation chores homemaker growth two weeks
No comments:
Post a Comment