Weekends, What Weekends?
Posted by chatfielda on October 14th, 2007
For the potential freelance writers among you - and I know there are a few - get used to the idea of a schedule that has no rhyme or reason. It’s just the way things will be. Sure, everyone will be jealous of your schedule and the fact that you never have to wake up early or that you have the luxury of taking a certain day off whenever you need to.
Don’t forget a couple of things though - you’re going to need to work a lot of times when you don’t want to. It’s a vicarious balance you need to reach and when you finally do, it’s not going to be very fun the first weekend on which you have a massive deadline looming. But it will happen, so get used to the idea now.
When you first stat writing in your free time or after work to see how well a freelance writing career will actually work, you won’t need to work on weekends, holidays or the occasional late night because you won’t be writing all that much.
Fast forward a few months and you can guarantee that your off weeks will be dull and result in poor months and that your busy weeks will be incredibly busy, stealing your free time sneakily out from under you. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when it happens.