Writer Weekends: A Professional Writer’s Weekend Activities/ATLANTA

How do professional writers spend their weekends? What do we do? Given the fact that writing requires both marketing and functionally writing, the weekend for a writer in Atlanta or elsewhere is often no different than a Monday or Thursday – except for less pressure and fewer phone calls.

Many times there is work left over to write for clients by Monday (whether a business plan, resume, web content, business letter, paper, research info, etc.), but at least half of the weekend of a writer is spent blogging, perfecting the website, writing expert articles, and working social media to stir up additional clients. The life is not always glorious or fun!

If the scribbler works really hard and fast on the weekend’s marketing work, he or she might even have time left to craft some fictional literature, essays, personal blog pieces, or nonfiction material. Better yet, it might be possible to edit and send-out personal material that is already on file.

There is always something for us to do, even computer maintenance. (And, let’s not forget routine home chores and upkeep.) Day to day life continues. It doesn’t stop. Personal relationships must also be kept-up.

The point is that writing is a 7 day a week job, basically 24 hours per day (even a writer’s minimal sleep is often planned). Everything a good writer does is a part of his or her work, whether sitting in church, a bar, visiting downtown Atlanta, watching documentaries/history shows, shopping, dating, reading, studying, handling business matters, exercising, eating, or talking with friends – everything is fodder for either marketing or writing new material.

You must to a great extent LIVE in order to have something to write about – or at least use as a reference in written material. Education is wonderful, as are friends and family, but travel and interaction with varying kinds of people is also important. Life is a huge textbook of knowledge; the more a writer knows the better his or her writing will likely be.

Sometimes weekends are great for spending half a day or a day in the woods or on a lake or in the city, experiencing that which can be written about. Yes, writers are like sponges capturing life in every way they can, and using as much as possible in their work. We are an odd lot to others.

~ Jimmy Hall Writing Services/Atlanta (404-580-1501) or HJimmy577@aol.com .