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Article | Writers’ Life
When you have to juggle day jobs and chores with finding time to write and promote your writing – a day in the life of a writers couple

Content and images for social media posts researched β€” check
Engaged with social media followers β€” check
The next social media posts scheduled β€” check
Answered writing-related emails β€” check
Watched the latest YouTube video on how to market our book(s) and what tools to use β€” check
Fiddled with our website (again) to make it slightly better β€” check
Wrote blog posts (mental note β€” schedule some time to publish and share on social media) β€” check

You’ve got to be kidding. Is that the time? Now we need to go and… [Delete as applicable]

Make Coffee
Do the day job
Make coffee
Cook tea
Exercise
Coffee time?
Spend time together
Coffee
Do the housework (aka read as housework is just too boring)
No more coffee, because…
Sleep!

Where did the time go? And when are we actually going to get around to doing some actual writing??

Sound familiar?

We had and still have many days like this. You may organise your life well already; others have to work at it β€” we know we do. But this was the dilemma we were in, and still are trying to manage with developing a (hopefully successful) writing career.

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