Dec
24
Working to a deadline
Filed Under Editing Strategies, Project Management
© Gaye Wilson 2007
Christmas is only a day away, but I’m working very hard on a rush editing job. I have to edit and format (including standardising the bibliography) 350 pages of academic research, and I have to get it done by 9th January. I only just got the job yesterday. And it’s Christmas time!
Editing takes a long time. Formatting bibliographies takes a long time.
So how am I going to do it?
The whole job looks overwhelming and the timeframe is a nightmare. It needs to be chunked down. I find numbers very soothing in circumstances like this.
So I’ve counted the pages and the days I have to do it in. I figure if I edit 25 pages per day, I might just make it. But that means I don’t do anything else in that time. I’ve allowed myself Christmas Day off.
We’ll see how it goes.
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