Something every day of the week
Feb 3, 2008 work work work
I’m crazy booked next week. Yeehaw and stuff. I plan to be very very tired next weekend. This will be a good lesson in time management!
Right now in another open window on this very computer I’m chasing a Monday deadline (late Monday so I’ll be chasing today and tomorrow) and then another deadline, which isn’t as pressing. And then some meeting prep stuff.
I keep thinking I need to be writing more but lately I’m too hyped up on all the business of running my life/work. Happily these things come in waves. So in December I spent a lot of time on my proposal and last month I spent a lot of time on tech stuff and ironing out wrinkles in this year’s marketing plan and it looks like this month will be a lot of work (god willing it will come with good paychecks) and if the paychecks are coming I can spend some free time thinking about creative writing.
Balance. Balance. Balance. No one is going to balance your life for you so the sooner you wrest back control, the better. (That’s a note to myself.)
And I still have these blog posts I’ve been wanting to write for awhile and just have not had a lick of time to do it. Know that when I’m not posting much of interest here it’s because life has sped up like crazy (because generally no matter how busy I am, I try awfully hard to give myself the Gift of the Daily Blog as writing practice but sometimes there just ain’t no space for it). Email suffers as well but feel free to hit me up again and say, “Yo, Dawn. When are you going to answer my freakin’ email already???” Or something like.
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Persevere
Feb 2, 2008 Writing, work work work
I have these big plans. Well, medium-sized plans but in a little life like mine they seem pretty big. There are all of these little steps to take me to these big plans because they are long-term big and I have to put in my time on the preparation front to make sure the plans materialize. And you know what? These preparation things sometimes seem pretty overwhelming and difficult.
One of my big plans has to do with the creative career that I want to build. Part of that plan has to do with the work to be a better writer and the other part has to do with building a professional platform.
My other big plan has to do with the material career that I want to build (i.e., $$$). Part of that plan is learning how to do things in the World of Business and the other part has to do with marketing myself professionally.
Basically they both come down to learning curves and marketing. Learning how to be better at things and figuring out how to sell myself/my work.
Because I’m always aiming ahead of where I am, sometimes I feel like I’m not getting anywhere, which is when I have to stop and take a minute to look at how far I’ve come and take a break from looking at how far I still have to go. Still, it’s hard.
This is one of my philosophies of life: Do it anyway. What the hell. Other people quit because it’s hard so sometimes just showing up is enough. You do the prep work, you do the leg work and eventually you’re in the right place at the right time.
Anyway. That’s what I’m thinking about today because it seems like on a number of fronts I’m almost where I want to be next. Which just reminds me of how far I have to go to get beyond that to the next stage. Too daunting. I need to put my head down and get back to work.
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Tags: creative, philosophy, work, Writing
African American History Month
Feb 1, 2008 Uncategorized
Originally published at this woman’s work. Please leave any comments there.
I’m going to be hanging out at Deesha’s place this month so I can learn something.
I first met Deesha virtually at Literary Mama where she wrote The Girl is Mine column but then I met her in real life at the adoption conference last October. Happily, Deesha is now blogging! Thank goodness! And she’s blogging the heck out of African American History Month along with her friend Yvette. There’s so much I don’t know that I appreciate having not one but two well-written, insightful blogs to turn to.
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