Perhaps because I have fewer hours I work with more intensity during those precious minutes. Today at lunch I ate my ranch chicken wrap while polishing my one-liner and blurb for my latest fantasy romance, A Tiger's Courage. I was thrilled last week to receive a contract offer from New Concepts Publishing for this book but of course I received it just in time to be back at work. But today at work I managed to get it done and send it out tonight. I even stopped by the post office on my way home to put the contract in the mail.I've always liked working under pressure with time constraints. In the summer when I should have hours and hours to write, I seem to get less done than when I'm teaching school for eight hours per day. Why? I do get distracted when I'm working at home by laundry, cooking, yard work but I still have more hours than during the school year. I can't figure it out but there it is. So for the next ten months, I'm expecting some of my best work.
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I guess I do now! Glad you got the short blurb ready.
I definitely think time constraints help me to work more efficiently. I seem to do my best work in the fall when I'm busiest at my day job.
Congratulations on your contract offer!
Time constraints are a big inspiration for me. I worked better, when I taught, under pressure. A flame under my butt is the best incentive!
I've always said, if it wasn't for deadlines I'd get nothing done.
I agree--I work better with a deadline. Before I retired, though, exhaustion was a limiting factor.
I prefer having no time constraints, but like you I find that my productivity is so much better when there's a deadline in sight. That being said, I still find ways to procrastinate!
I do much better when I have a deadline imposed from without. No so well when I try impose one on myself.
My own schedules never work. Let authority make a deadline and I'm on it. Silly little worker bee.
M Beth
I like having freedom to do things, but time constraints often force me to get things done, which (in many cases) is a good thing!
Sounds like we're all on the same wavelength for working under pressure.
Hi Jamie, for some reason blogger still won't let me comment on your blog. I can't figure it out. It keeps asking me to sign into my google account again and again. I am visiting you.
Congrats on the new contract!
I tend to put more pressure on myself than anyone else could possibly do, so no - my biggest problem is still time. Though I do find I need a break to refresh my brain now and then!
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