by Cody Hodge

Created on: August 26, 2010

If you are a freelance writer, you realize that you have no set schedule on a given day. You might like to work from 9-5, but you know that a deadline will often determine when you work, and for how long you are to work. If a deadline is at noon, you are going to be working to that deadline, and if a deadline is midnight, you might try and sneak in some work before that deadline as well.

How do you keep track of what time it is and how much time you have spent writing? A good idea is to experiment at first and see how long it has taken you to write an article, or do research for an article. Figure out what your average time spent is, and you will have a good idea of how much time has passed by how many articles you have written or researched.

For example, say it takes you 10 minutes to write an article, and a half hour to research one. If you written an article and researched an article, you have spent 40 minutes on on article. This means that you know that if you start at 9am and you have an article that you have due by noon, that you have to start that article at 1115 to give yourself a few minutes to submit that article.

This also means that you have time to write roughly three articles before your deadline article has to be written. You should give some time for submitting, and possibly revising, an article, but this will show you how much time you have. It will also help you calculate what time it is without really having to look at a clock or your cell phone if it isn't around.

Not only does this allow you to keep track of time, but it also allows you to keep your phone away from you. I know a lot of people use it to tell time, but also to text or play games while just taking a few minutes away from writing. This can turn into a huge distraction that can be avoided using this method,

Writing can be a very fun, and very time consuming thing for most writers. We tend to lose track of time just because of the various aspects there are to writing. By figuring out how long it takes you on average to write an article and do the various other activities regarding your writing, it can make keeping track of time that much easier.

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