Comments on: The Freelancer’s Time-Saving Cheat Sheet https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/08/the-freelancers-time-saving-cheat-sheet.html a freelance writing resource. Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: devon ellington https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/08/the-freelancers-time-saving-cheat-sheet.html#comment-17741 Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:30:46 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6878#comment-17741 The amount of hours varies. I work better in large swaths of unstructured time. I focus down, remove distractions, and write. When I’m in the groove, I can go for long stretches. If there are distractions — if I forget to turn off the phone and it rings ONCE — it can derail me for hours.

I mix writing time with percolation time, or, as I can it, “pacing and muttering” time. I like to work things out taking a walk, pacing/muttering, folding laundry, in the shower, etc.

Right now, I have X hours/week dedicated to one particular client, and I’m onsite for that, but I’m far more cooked and less productive than if it was remote. However, I needed to be there, at least at first, to learn the business. So we’ll see.

There are days when I’ll work for twelve or fourteen hours and I’m so deep in it, I think two hours have gone by. There are days when I work 8 and it seems like 800. There are days when I work 2 and it’s better work than the whole week. But I show up every day and do something, and try to spread it all out a bit.

]]> By: Paula Hendrickson https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/08/the-freelancers-time-saving-cheat-sheet.html#comment-17740 Thu, 09 Aug 2018 20:57:06 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6878#comment-17740 One hard rule of mine: no games until after hours (or MAYBE during my lunch hour, because unless I’m super busy I take a full hour off around lunch time.) And while I might post something to Instagram during the work day, scrolling through the feed is after hours or during lunch, too.

I know you’ve mentioned this before, Lori, but one of the funniest things about freelancing is the busier you are the easier it is to block everything else out and get the work done. That’s why I like hard deadlines over open-ended deadlines.

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