Career Planning

Good advice, paraphrasing filmmaker Peter Ferrelly: It seems like common sense, but don't ever, ever rob a bank.

Embarrassing truth: the reason I haven't blogged in the last five days? My keyboard was buried under a bunch of papers, notes, junk. It was easier to skip blogging than to dig it out.

Now back to the subject. Career? Planning? Do those two words actually go together? Not in my experience. But the best writers' group in the country, Romance Writers Ink, met Saturday, and our speaker was multi-published erotica/paranormal author Jaci Burton, and she convinced me otherwise. It's easier to get where you want to go if you have a plan to do it. Common sense, like the quote up at the top, but sometimes you need someone to point it out to you. (Check out the six thousand books she has coming out at http://www.jaciburton.com)

So one of my career plans for today is to make a career plan. It's especially the schedule part that I'm most interested in. If I don't have deadlines looming, I can piss away an entire month and have nothing to show for it. (Though with another hour and a half, my yard will be done. Until tomorrow, when I have to start over again.)

So I've got Jaci's handout with samples, and I'm going to head to my office later this morning (where the keyboard never disappears from sight), and I'm going to make a career plan.

I'll let you know how it goes. Rachel8:08 AM