Guys today’s guest post is from the lovely Emily Elgar, author of If You Knew Her. Below Emily explains all about her mantra ‘manage my energy not my time.’ in the below post’How I’m Learning to Manage My Energy for Writing and My Time’. Do you have any good mantras that help you? Emily’s words: Before I started writing, I had jobs with pretty ‘normal’ hours. I’d be in work at 9.30am and leave at 5.30pm there’d be a bit of over time or a few late nights here and there, but that time would carefully be recorded and taken in lieu. It made for a relatively steady time. It also complimented the protestant work ethic – a good days grind being seven or so hours sitting at a desk – largely drummed into me at school. At first, writing didn’t feel like work. My jaw didn’t ache from gritting my teeth, there was no smoke puffing out of my ears. I was so overjoyed that writing was now my work I couldn’t understand where the ‘tortured artist’ sterotype came from. Then […]