Preparing to Write a Novel, The Time Management Plan.

Preparing to Write a Novel, The Time Management Plan. 07/11/2010

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The title of my novel will remain a secret until I am ready to publish so I will simply call my first novel, “Secret”, to give it a name, to talk about it here..

Tonight I have spent 4.5 hours in preparation time on my novel, “Secret”..

I have not written a word of my novel, I do not intend to write the novel until November,

Tonight I completed the time management planning to write the novel and allocated other aspects of my life into a secondary position in my life to give the novel, a primary focus

The division of Time I have allocated to each stage.

I have generously allowed myself 21 hours a week to work on the novel.

1/ Preparation and research - 3 months, Begun.

2/ 1 month to write, the novel, in November.

3/ 5 months to get it properly, edited and re written to a finished stage.

Total of 9 months, lol, ‘that would be right, that is how long it takes to produce a child’.

Time Management Plan to Gain a 21 Hour Novel writing working week.

1/I have allocated 3 hours x 7 days a week to my novel writing project, giving me a 21 hour novel writing week. This should be more than adequate to do a good job. 2/ I will continue to blog and I will do EBooks and art prints for sale from my blogs also free form link work and advertising as I will need to save my money in case I self publish a book

3/ I will discontinue my gym and focus on ¾ of an hour of cardio exercise and ¾ of an hour of strength training exercises on alternate days, from ‘home’ as this will save me time. I will not be active in the 12wbt forums as I need to find additional time I have to cut back on some actions. Similarly, I may move entirely into my Kathy Shell page on facebook to chat, my site I publish my blogs to, purely due to needing to find this extra 3 hours a day.

4/ As my time for exercising will be reduced I will need to be more focused on eating clean.

5/ I will be packing my paints away, for some time. A novel will be my major work of art for the year, I have achieved painting I am ready for new achievements.

6/I may learn how to download audio books to an IPod or get a portable CD player to listen to audio books while exercising fulfilling some additional exercise benefit and learning more about the craft of novel writing by listening to the work of good authors.

7/ After an initial stop start attempt to begin the novel preparation work, earlier in the night I realized that this work will have to happen after reg retires for the night.

8/I discovered as I researched my novel, I found great ideas for blogs so I actually deviated and did some blog topics while they were flowing off my fingers into print easily, that 'works for me', in the same way as sharing how I write this novel, can be a useful blog topic for those interested.

Happy with the time management plan above and placing it into action immediately, I am ready to write the

Plot Chart

I am ready to begin to write the rough plot chart for the novel, plan where it will start and how it will end and prepare my character descriptions.

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