The concept of flexible discipline, (no idea where I took that from, I’m sure it is out there somewhere) inspires me. 

I have a full day of writing per week to apply such concept and have fun in listing what I feel I should allow me to do or not and still consider myself to have been productive…

• Writing (obviously)
  • Writing items on my main list of goals is better than just writing anything
  • Writing useless emails are not valid, but writing complaints or anything that will free my mind of some annoying persistant thought is okay
  • Writing about writing
• Research and preparation
  • Character building
  • Location research
  • Contacting people to be interviewed
  • Preparing Interviews
  • Reading short, specific material (broad reading is for other days)
• Admin tasks that will organise the writing
  • Writing travel booking
  • Contacting story-related people
  • Keeping up blogs and sites and social media
  • Renewing domain names
  • Clearing email inboxes and organising calendar
• Ideas building
  • Taking a nap thinking of something (preferable with conscious dreaming)
  • Walking meditation – focusing on something that needs solutions or ideas
  • Swimming, dancing in the living room, or bathing meditations
  • Cooking meditation
  • Catching the ferry or the train for writing while travelling (not travel writing)
  • Day writing adventures
  • Libraries visit writing
  • Toilet breaks – even many of them (they are great for sparking ideas)
• Freeing your mind
  • Taking notes of ideas for writing
  • Cataloguing ideas for writing (blog posts? books? short stories?)
  • Doing small tasks that take little time and un-clot the mind
  • Organising the space before starting to feel ready to start
  • Writing any messages and booking any appointments early in the day and letting people know its the end of the conversation for the day
  • Regular breaks to refresh and get the blood pumping
  • Bobbing on yoga ball (for the same reason above)
• Editing and publishing
  • Editing and proofreading
  • Layout creating and cover creation
  • Hiring freelancers
  • Sending material to publishers
• Coffee…
  • “Coffee glides into one’s stomach and sets all of one’s mental processes in motion” Honoré de Balzac