Rich Writer Poor Writer – Words from a Writer and Novelist Work in Progress

I figure a lot of people who read this blog have read Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money–That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! (Miniature Edition). One repeated phrase in the book is to “pay yourself first”.

As a writer hoping to be a novelist, this advice comes close to home, but right now I have as much luck with that as I do with the financial advice originally intended.

The lesson here, folks is that all writing is not created equal, and that the writing for yourself – the writing you WANT to do has to be made a priority somehow.

Using a corollary to Parkinson’s Law, I guess one solution to the problem is to allot less time to the non-novel writing, trusting that it will indeed get done in that time, and allot more time to the novel writing.

Here’s to hoping that Parkinson’s Law and all it’s friends and relations work to the favor of future novelists everywhere.