writing and research

Lets face it, there are only so many hours in the day that you can devote to freelancing – if you dont’ need sleep, you’ve still only got 24 hours in any one day so how do you fit in everything else?

I ask this question of myself as much as anyone else because the last few months my workload has increased, good you might say, and my role as caring mother and grandmother has been much in demand. I have managed to increase my daily work output but when a sudden emergency occurs, and for some reason they occur often recently, it puts a spanner in the writing works. No matter how much I plot and plan my day, there is always at least one of my offspring, or offspring’s offspring, that needs my attention. I love being a mother and a grandmother but I love being a wife and a writer as well – so in the words of the song something’s gotta give, but what?

My list for today included ten articles for one client, one for another and four for a third and some amendments to an Ebook for a fourth. So far I have almost completed two of those tasks, in between giving my oldest grandaughter directions over the phone to her uncle’s office, and stopping for an unscheduled hour to chat with my eldest daughter. My only other work interferer has been too much time on Twitter today, I shall have to turn it off at some point this evening if I don’t want to still be up at 6am.

Any suggestions on how to successfully get a quart out of a freelance writer’s pint pot?

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