Day in the Life of Nikki Logan

Because I juggle a day-job along with the author job, no two days of my week are the same. Some days I race around preparing to go to work for the morning and others I can afford to take a more leisurely approach to the day. On a day-job day (which varies depending on how much project work there is going on), I get home around 6pm and quickly make dinner and then wander up to my study and begin writing (or working on promotion or other business aspects of this industry).

On a (fabulous!) non-dayjob day (including weekends) I tend to try and get chores and life-admin out of the way in the morning so that, after lunch, I can hit the desk and work solidly through to about 6pm. I try to knock off businessy activity (emails, blog posting, account) first because once I get into the writing flow I can not lift my head until hours later.

That's on a good writing day.

On a more frustrating writing day I struggle not to be distracted by endless tasks--tea breaks, playing with the dogs, more errands. Anything to distract me from the reality of being in a writing funk. I have best success writing later in the day and even more success writing late at night, but on a non day-job day I try and spend evening time with my family.

Now that I have an internet enabled laptop I can move my research and general internet usage to the evening so I can sneakily work while watching TV and get bonus family points while not losing momentum on the writing.