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You can apply all this information for writers to Painters and Sculptors, we all have the same time restraint issues of a labour intensive job and the need to allocate time for public relations work as well.

While I still have not put pen to paper and created any more cartoons since I went to the Cartoon Writing Seminar last Wednesday I have applied all the business skills for Authors training I received in the latter part of the Seminar and 'that's OK,' because I already could do cartoon sketches it was best to focus on those areas I could improve on first.

The move I have made towards doing the actual cartooning is to allocate 4 hours a day by 5 days a week to my blogging, short story, essay length, cartooning and author promotion skills. Or 20 hours per week.  I will be focusing on the A priorities fist, and that is those skills I need to improve and the most urgent ones.

So I have allocated the time to do the cartooning, as it moves up the priority ladder it will be done, within that 4 hours, Monday to Friday.  I am allocating  2 x 4 hour work sessions from 8 until 12  at each end of the day.

One will be treasured and maintained 7 days a week or 28 hours a week just for my novel writing with a bonus additional 2 x 4 hours cribbed off the days I take a break from the small writing work.  That equals 36 hours Novel writing time per week and I'm sure I will crib a little extra time and make that a 40 hour week as I am serious about my novel writing. If I was painting this would be time allocated to my major work of art.  I set this full time working week for it as non negotiable.

I need to work on this further to allocate enough exercise time and have a balanced lifestyle. Yes, good time management is a valid seminar topic for writers and i have attended and even given a few of those throughout my creative career. Get the time management right and you can create well and stay reasonably healthy.

Summery:
* I work a part time 20 hour week at smaller PR size and income generating creative work.
* I work a full time 40 hour week at my major creative work this is currently my novel.
* I allocate 10 hours minimum to the study and improvement of my creative work. For a writer this is reading a novel for at least one hour a day and brushing up on grammar,
* Fitness activity, healthy meals planning and sleep. - Yes this is why I need to plan or something gets left out. All my social activity needs to be fitted in around training =, fitness or meals. I do turn the TV off unless it is educational and facebook for me is an educational and promotional medium it is not for wasting time playing games, when I play games it is with real life to my face friends and family members.

Set your goals, plan the actions to achieve them then plan your time so you can achieve what you want to do,



My next Seminar is Feb 11 on submitting my novel to an agent or publisher.

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