I wrote last week about me leaving Yorkshire and travelling the world, whilst writing. This week I’m going to go into what it’s been like for my writing.
I’ll be honest, it’s been difficult to manage. Travelling is something you don’t have to do every hour of the day, but sometimes with all the socialising you lose a lot of time. Right now I’ve managed to catch some spare time on the bus to Hamburg.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the meeting new people thing, but sometimes it can really impact your writing output.
Losing Productivity
I admit I’ve lost quite a bit of productivity since I started travelling. I’m way behind on my targets, in terms of writing new books. That’s simply because I don’t have the spare hours any longer.
I’ve managed to discipline myself to set that time aside, but I’ve gone down to about 1500-2000 words a day, which is about half of what I normally write.
This is where writing so many books in advance has paid off big time. It means I’m in no danger of missing any release dates.
Juggling Writing and Editing

This is what it feels like sometimes

The issue is writing and editing at the same time. I have to make changes to some of my books whilst writing other books. There’s nothing I can do about this because I’m not keeping to a strict schedule of write and edit a book every month.
It means some days I get no writing done at all because I’ve had to go away and edit. Some days I can’t write a novel because I’ve got a short story I need to complete next.
Trying to manage this time, as well as everything to do with travelling is a real challenge.
Luckily, it hasn’t impacted my release schedule or the quality of my work thus far. I will be interested to see what my editor thinks when I send her my first book written entirely abroad.
In the meantime, you can check out news of my travels on www.travelfarner.com
Until next time…
James Farner