054: 7 tips for task-switching between writing fiction and doing other things in life & business
Indie Author Weekly
English - April 07, 2020 05:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Personal Journals indie author self-publishing writing life authorpreneur book marketing how to write a book self-published new author romance novel book writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode of Indie Author Weekly answers a listener-submitted question from Alana, who asks:
“How do you task-switch between writing fiction and doing other things? For example, I can’t switch from fiction to work emails and back. I can only write fiction with a giant long uninterrupted block… which is why I haven’t written anything longer than a short story in a long time, because there’s no way I can put aside a long enough uninterrupted or even mildly interrupted block to work on a novel.”
Great question! This is definitely something that I think we can all relate to. I find it really challenging to write novels if I don’t have a large chunk of time blocked off for it, which is a big part of the reason for why I write novellas instead of novels.
But there are some ways that we can make task-switching a little more manageable, and improve our focus and productivity with it all. And since I’m both a productivity strategist and an author, this question is exactly the kind of thing I love!
Tune into this episode to get 7 tips for how to handle this problem around task-switching…
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