The importance of air traffic control: a note on proper creative gig management

No matter how far along you are as a writer, you need to assume all of your individual gigs can and very well might crash into each other like 747s on an overcrowded Tenerife runway in 1977.

This newsletter is about the importance of managing all of your work gigs—all of them, freelance and full-time—as part of one big master Career.

Not doing so is the single most common author self-management error I have encountered over the course of my career. While the consequences of making said error are seldom catastrophic, they are frequently annoy…