Authors often tell each other
“Protect the writing.”
Writing is our core activity.
If we don’t produce fresh words,
any marketing, editing, writing relationship building,
activities
are pointless.
Many of us write first thing
in the morning.
That is our most important activity
so that is the activity
we complete first.
We don’t check email.
We don’t take calls.
We protect the writing.
EVERY business, industry, job
has a core essential activity.
It is the activity
that MUST get done.
You should know what
that activity is.
(If you don’t know,
ASK)
You should contribute
to that activity
(if you are essential
to the essential activity,
you have job security).
And you should protect that activity
from the other
non-essential resource-eating activities.
Protect the writing.