May 27, 2005, Newsletter Issue #20: Dealing with Multiple Deadlines
Tip of the Week
DEALING WITH MULTIPLE DEADLINES
Whether you are employed or a freelancer, deadlines are a fact of life. Each writing assignment comes with a deadline.
It comes with the territory and most of us are pretty good at meeting deadlines. But what happens if you start the week with three projects on the go, and all three are due on Friday afternoon?
Clearly you can`t write all three concurrently. So you plan on completing one by Tuesday, one on Wednesday and one on Thursday. And you have an extra day built in to deal with the unexpected.
Remember, Friday is the deadline for all three. Once you have completed the first job on Tuesday, what do you do? Do you send it to your client on Wednesday morning and get a few brownie points for delivering early?
I don`t do that. And here`s why. If you deliver that job on Wednesday morning, you run the risk of the client coming back to you a few hours later with a bunch of revisions.
All of a sudden your schedule for the week is blown, because you still have three jobs on the go.
When I am working with concurrent jobs I do one job at a time, but don`t deliver the work until the agreed deadline. That way I can be sure of keeping my schedule running smoothly.
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