Jenn HollowellRe-Assessing Organization
August 23rd 2008 16:12
Now that I’m placing new emphasis on different aspects of my writing career, I need to take note of how things are organized over here. Typically, I’m a very neat and organized person. I can find things without trouble and get my house in order with no trouble.
This is NOT the case with my office – studio – whatever you want to call it – my creative space. (Yes, I think that’s the best fit.) There are piles of miscellaneous whatnot all over the place. My kids have managed to take up half the room without me noticing, so that needs to be immediately rectified.
I need to re-enlist the use of my organizational notebooks before I tackle the bit “this belongs here, this belongs in the trash, this is for sale” type of organization. I used to have month map notebooks for each of my gigs, and then I traded down to smaller reporter style pads. These work great, but they’re not well used if they’re sitting under a pile of half-finished scrapbooks.
If I’m going to be serious about the re-assessment of my career, I have to be serious about the organization of the tools I use to achieve my career goals. I have to look at the whole picture:
· My schedule and availability
· My income goals
· My print versus online publishing goals
· My promotional goals
· My organizational goals
· My personal creative goals
Each are important building blocks toward a successful career, and in order to be where I want to be on this little career latter I’m climbing, I need to address each one . . . including organization. I can’t keep putting that last. I do that because I tend to think my career isn’t as important as meeting other needs. This isn’t true. Constant reminders of that are necessary and blog posts like these help.
Do you struggle with the organization of your freelance writing career tools? What methods of organization do you use?
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