How to Avoid a Major Melt Down

You know what I mean.

You have too many writing projects at the moment, you’re also trying to care for your family, or even work a full time job.

Suddenly you feel overwhelmed and you don’t know how you’ll keep up with everything.

In an effort to regain some control over your life, you start dropping out of things, or letting go of some of your personal writing projects.

But most often, the things you start letting go of and dropping out of are the very things that bring you the most joy from your writing.

OR they are the very things that will help you establish a name for yourself as a writer.

If this is happening to you right now, try these steps to avoid a major melt down and get back on track with your writing career.

Step 1: Realize you are not alone. All writers get overwhelmed from time to time. The more experienced and successful ones learn to develop an overall plan for their writing careers and take on projects that ONLY relate to their overall plan.

Step 2: If you don’t have an overall plan for your freelance writing career, now is the time to create one.

Step 3. Once you have an overall plan for your writing career, make a list of all the writing projects you are doing right now. How many of these projects relate to your overall plan? How many of them are simply writing jobs to keep a little income coming in until you finally get to make a living from the type of writing that you love? If you find that your list of projects does not include one single thing that you LOVE to write, then get back on track with your plan. Don’t eliminate the activities that are part of your overall plan. Eliminate some of those activities that are just short-term writing projects to earn a little extra income.

I know this may be difficult to do.

But, if you weed out some of those activities that don’t relate to your overall plan, and stick to those writing activities that DO relate to the plan, you’ll create the writing career of your dreams much sooner than you will if you’re constantly overwhelmed and unfocused.