"Mikel G" <mikelgXXX@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I now this is a journalism forum, and not a self-help one.
> I have been given a work as a freelance book writer, and I'm having
> problems for organizing my own time. I have had quite a long time for
> handing in the copy, but I have been a disaster. Now I'm really late and
> the worst thing is that I know it is all due to my bad time managing
> skills.
> How do you manage? What technicals do you use?
> It won't help me much this time, but I think it could be a good subject
> for this news group.
>
> Sorry my artificial English but as you could guess I'm not a native (I
> mean native English speaker, of course I am a native from my country,
> sorry about that.)
>
> Cheers
>
> Mikel
Both Kurt and Jim are right on. I work backward from whatever deadline I
have and try to break down the work into segments: research, how many
interviews I need to substantiate points, and transcription time. If I've
done a good enough job managing those elements, the actual writing is a
snap.
Barbara
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