Time management is important to writers, because you need to get into the habit of marketing your writing and your writing services consistently. BUT and it's a BIG but: it's hard to find the time to write as well as to market.
The Natural Planning Process (NPP) can help.
The NPP is the way we plan anything. For most things, like going shopping, making dinner, or planting the garden, we do the entire process in our heads. It's done so fast that we don't realize what we're doing.
Here's the NPP ---
1. Define
2. Envision
3. Brainstorm
4. Organize
5. Action!
We can’t cover the entire process on this blog, you'll need to read Lesson Two of our Marketing workshop on Pro Write for a complete exploration of the process. That lesson includes a section on time management for marketing your work, with a mind map.
The salient point of the NPP is that we can’t do projects, we can only do tasks. So when we decide to "do" a project like marketing, we get confused. When we break it down, we see that it's simple. We can only do a task at a time, and we only need to know, or guess, what that task is.
Take baby steps. Over time, I've learned that as long as I know roughly what I'm doing next on any writing project, the project gets done. :-)
