Writing can be a
full-time job. Running one's own business can be a full-time job.
Combine the two and you have… chaos! Or, at least, the potential
for it. What it means is you have to get more organized and
prioritize activities daily and sometimes throughout the day.
Those who are
already published, may find that is all they need to earn what they
want to earn. Most writers, even those who are published, make
around $10,000 per year. If it is a supplemental income, read:
spouse has a job that pays most of the bills, that may well be
enough.
As for me, writing
has not moved into the “paying” phase yet. Therefore, and
because I have goals that outstrip my husband's income, I work at
home as an Independent Lilla Rose Stylist for myself and help my
children with their business. I have a great deal to manage without
writing and business running, so I'm becoming significantly better at
organizing and prioritizing.
Planning and
scheduling (especially social media and blog posts) have become
exceedingly important to me. For some things, posts are scheduled
out as much as a year in advance. Doing so relieves me of a great
deal of “daily” work, which results in a much calmer homeschool
mama.
Basically, though,
it really just gets more challenging. Add more to one's plate and
the plate gets heavier… sometimes that's good, but not always. I
suppose that is as it should be… as one matures, life gets heavier
and at least a little more difficult. However, if either the writing
or the business running are necessary for any given reason or set of
reasons or important enough to the person doing them, then the
owner/writer will make it work!
Do you write and run
your own business? I'd like to know what you do! What's your genre?
What's your business?
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