Nanowrimo 2012 - Day 4

If I had to pick a title for this blog it would be "Time Management - or how I have never developed that skill and it is slowly going to kill me".

It is only day four but if it wasn't for the fact I managed to surround myself with such an absurd number of people with Nanowrimo I would have already found a cave to hide in.

I have talked more about writing in the past four days then I have actually wrote. I think I may have found a career: Novel Motivational Emailer. I would feel too guilty to charge cash so I would be paid in food, possibly in kittens since that is the preferred currency of the internet anyway.

...I had a point somewhere.

Although I am behind word count (roughly a day and a half) and still playing catch up with school work...a half dozen other things are waiting to ambush me in the coming weeks. I am the sort of person who need structure in order to function effectively so whenever I am not in school or have a regular work schedule my personal life sort of dissolves into this ineffective free-for-all of unfinished projects and forgotten ideas.

That said...I'm going to try and block out tomorrow and have set times.
Something like:

8:00-9:00 AM - Return calls to companies about charity food drive
9:00-11:00 AM - Reading Homework
11:00-12:00 AM - Paper Writing
12:00-1:00 PM - Lunch/Sanity/Walk break
1:00-2:00 PM - Get caught up on email
2:00-4:00 PM - Novel Writing
4:00-5:00 PM - Reading Homework
5:00-6:00 PM - Dinner
7:00-11:00 - Novel Writing and Nano Homework
11:00 - ???? Sleep...?

Or something to that effect.
Everyone operates on their type of schedule.
With class I believe I'm expected to do somewhere between fifteen to eighteen hours of prep time each week for all my classes with research and writing.

With part time work thrown in the mix when I get called it's not an exact day to day schedule but I think it will at least help me maintain some semblance of balance and sanity during this noveling month.

Regardless today's theme was scheduling and balance.
Brought to you by Nanowrimo and Insomnia.
Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
Goodnight.