Planning holidays

Filed the quick-turnaround, giant commission today and am now DETERMINED to take the rest of August off!

There's a great article here by Linda Jones. So, having promised myself a month off, what went wrong?

Well, July was busy, the idea being that I'd write copy I knew needed to be filed in August, so come filing day I'd just have to email stuff off. That was all well and good until an editor came back to me and said that the 1000 words I'd filed were great, but that actually a 5000 word piece with a quick turnaround was what was now wanted. Decision to make was, did I take the work and have to put in some really long nights, or did I say "no thanks" and let someone else take the gig? I did think long and hard before saying "yes", but the money was a big draw and it wasn't too bad, let's hope all's okay and I really can take the next couple of weeks properly off.