So. How did Week One of my Taking Action in August work out?

 First learning point – my normal routine is to check my emails before I start work each mornin.

Fatal mistake. Because there is always something interesting on my group forum or professional sites which I want to follow up on – and that is without the personal emails.

And of course while I have the internet open, I have to pop into my pals Blog sites and scan the latest posts. And Twitter is on the same Favourites Bar and…

Well there goes an hour, and generates a string of follow up sites which could be useful to the business or craft elements of being a writer.

But they do not help me create content and realise my ideas on paper = Today. This moment. To quote Lance Armstrong ‘Every Second Counts.’

 Change in Behaviour? I cannot recall a time when I received an email before noon which was so urgent that I had to respond to immediately.

New behaviour/habit: No emails before noon. None. Not even personal. If Mr Nina needs me he will phone. Read emails over coffee after lunch.

And I follow up craft and business sites in the evening.

Second Learning point. Sometimes real life intervenes and I lost one morning. The temptation was to simply forget about project two and work on project one all day. No. I have to keep faith for my Crime book. And I was grateful I did because I had an insight I could well have missed.

Third leaning point? The energy of working on two completely different but both character driven books feeds one another so that the time spent is a lot more focused and productive. The output on both projects was actually better than I had expected.

 Quite fascinating.

In the meantime. I was delighted that my ninth Mills and Boon Romance Line Book ‘ When Chocolate is not enough’ was accepted and will be released as a  RIVA line book in March 2012.  I LOVED writing this book and the title fits my chocolatier heroine perfectly.

So. On with the show. 🙂 The next deadline cometh. LOL