"How do I treat my writing as a business?"

• Write every day.
• Give yourself a page limit and set deadlines for project completion. Write your deadlines in on a desk calendar and meet them.
• Don't answer the phone while you're writing.
• Don't take time off from your writing to do housework or go out to lunch with friends or find the kids' mittens. If this means that you have to write at wierd times of the day, write at wierd times of the day. My work hours are from five a.m. to noon.
• Create a workspace for yourself that is yours alone, even if it's just one corner of a room and your own particle-board mini-workstation.
• Identify yourself as a writer, to yourself and to others.
• Keep all your writing-related reciepts.
• Don't accept the judgements of others as having any meaning. If your friends or family suggest that what you're doing is just a hobby and that you shouldn't be wasting your time on it, ignore them.

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