Today was a day
of pragmatically working through a list of admin that needed to be done to
essentially clear the decks for me to get on with some writing.
I’ll often check
things off a list when I have a few deadlines as it helps concentrate my mind
on what needs doing, as well as giving me the sense that things are moving
forward. Today I was particularly insistent and stuck to the list without
deviation, even if it felt like, as ever, I was drowning in a sea of everything
but the creative side of what I need to do; I knew that ultimately I’d thank
myself for keeping at it, and I genuinely feel doing so will stand me in good
stead for the next few weeks.
Much of what I
did today makes for dull reading, but it was still worth it. I pulled together
a blurb for the back of our St Albans Mostly Comedy flyer, wrote a press
release for the middle of our three dates there, finished the artwork for my
Bath Comedy Festival dates - as well as ordering it - and scheduled a mailing
list mailout for this Thursday so I could wipe it from my mind in the week.
I’ll still have to email the line-up for this week’s Mostly with all the
details, but at least that’s the majority of that side of work done for a bit.
It should also help stop me procrastinating, which I’m often prone to do. Even
though I got it all done it still took longer than it should; oh, for a P.A.