Jane Davis
I try to get things that stops my flow out of the way. Once you’ve published that first book, there is never just the writing. The publicity machine tends to take over. The requests to review books and provide endorsements. A website to maintain. I know some authors who ring-fence their time very successfully, but I can be side-tracked by the fact that 350 emails in my in-box every day and, whilst many of them will be junk, the thought that there might be ten that deserve my immediate attention means that I can’t leave them alone. So it takes discipline. But if I'm really blocked, I go for a walk. That seems to wake the old grey-matter up!
I try to get things that stops my flow out of the way. Once you’ve published that first book, there is never just the writing. The publicity machine tends to take over. The requests to review books and provide endorsements. A website to maintain. I know some authors who ring-fence their time very successfully, but I can be side-tracked by the fact that 350 emails in my in-box every day and, whilst many of them will be junk, the thought that there might be ten that deserve my immediate attention means that I can’t leave them alone. So it takes discipline. But if I'm really blocked, I go for a walk. That seems to wake the old grey-matter up!
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