We Can Do It! Jaye Peaches Shows Us How To Get More Done

Please welcome Jaye Peaches to the continuing discussion of productivity. 

Celeste Jones: Are you a full time or part time writer?

Jaye:  full-time

Celeste Jones:  What other responsibilities do you have to juggle along with writing? Children? Aging parents? Exercise? A disturbing number of pets? Critiquing for other writers?

Jaye: kids (5&9) and volunteering locally takes up a few hours each week.

Celeste Jones: Do you have a set schedule for when you write? If so, what is it?

Jaye: School hours and evenings, except when I’m shopping, running errands….

Celeste Jones: Do you have particular productivity goals for each day or week or just go for it?

Jaye: No short term goals.  I’ve always switched between tasks. A legacy of my previous career. I like to have several things on the go at once – including non-erotica work which is done openly under my real name and is something that I share with family and friends.  I have long term goals, ie Q2 these 2 books will be published.

Celeste Jones: What is a typical day (if such a thing exists) like for you?

Jaye:  Drink tea. Then catch up on blogs – I have a personal anon blog.  If I’m in a creative mood I write, if I feel unimaginative I edit an existing book. When I’m in full flow I hate to be interrupted which is hard when it coincides with picking kids up from school etc.  I have music on too, especially classical then I don’t get distracted by lyrics.

Celeste Jones:  Do you work on more than one manuscript at a time?

Jaye:  Yes. Always. They feed off each other. Something I write in one will fire up ideas in another. This is even true of my non-erotic work, even though the genre is different.

Celeste Jones: Do you use any special writing programs like Write or Die?

Jaye: Word. I would be interested to know about specialist software from other authors.

Celeste Jones: What about promotion? Do you have particular time when you visit blogs or use other social media? How do you monitor your time?

Jaye:  I’m weak here as I’m new to promoting. I would like to schedule my time better on this and learn how to engage with readers as well as other writers.  I’m not a marketing person and don’t like drawing attention to myself. My books, yes, me the author, no.

Celeste Jones: What about your blog? Do you have a set schedule  or just blog when the mood strikes you?

Jaye:  If it is a blog hop I will work to the deadline. At the moment it is by mood and I might write several posts in one day and schedule them over the coming weeks.

Celeste Jones: What tips or pointers do you have to share to help others be more productive?

Jaye: Creativity comes at the strangest moments.  I compose music too and often I compose when I’m sad, but write when I’m happy.  Don’t judge productivity by output. A few hundred well written words are worth far more than a few thousand rubbish ones. My muse packs up sometimes and getting going again might mean doing something completely different.  Go for a walk, bake, research some background for a plot.   Don’t compare to others.  Writing is a fluid process.

Celeste Jones: What books are you working on now? What are your goals for 2014?

Jaye: I’ve just submitted one to a publisher. Another is half written and another is in outline. 7 are in draft for self-publishing.  I have short stories written that could be turned into books.  I also have one vanilla book which is my main goal for the year.  This one will take priority second half of the year.

Celeste Jones: Anything else you’d like to share?

Jaye: I have a private blog where I write ideas for my vanilla book. I share this with a few friends/family. It is like having beta readers as you go. Each post is a snippet rather than trying to write chronologically. Eventually I stick them together and edit into chapters. It has really helped plan the book and see where I want to take the characters.

Want to find out more about Jaye Peaches? 

http://jayepeaches.wordpress.com

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7142793.Jaye_Peaches

https://www.facebook.com/JayePeaches

http://amazon.com/author/jayepeaches

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