Playing Catch Up!

There’s an old saying, “the hurrier you go, the behinder you get.”

Well, you don’t have to hurry to get way behind…

My email box if forever stuffed with work. In fact, there is some stuff that that if I turned it upside down to see the earliest stuff, a good bit of it would be out of date.

I get somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200 emails a day and like most of us, over half of it is junk.

That still leaves a good bit of mail to go through. It seems like for every email I finish – that’s where most of my writing material comes from, so I write one article and at least three more messages comes in and need attention.

It is a never ending list that seemingly will never end. Well, at least I won’t run out of work anytime soon.

One of these days I need to take a few hours and just go through the old stuff and maybe at least put a dent in the pile of mail. Good thing it’s electronic and not physical or it would fill my whole apartment!

I routinely write three to six articles per day – depending on things like races and race related programming or whether it is a long time consuming piece like award show results. After four or five hours my hands and fingers start cramping up and I have to stop.

But I often wonder how much is too much when it comes to posting in a single day.

I might could get through more emails in a single day if I let one of the AI programs do the writing, but I refuse to use it for writing. I will and have used the AI option for photos since I don’t have legal access to a lot of photos needed. But when it comes to writing I refuse to put my name on anything I didn’t write.

By the same token, I object to someone else getting credit for my work. I did a little copy writing at one time but earning $4 or $5 for an article that someone else put their name on just didn’t feel right.

Race season ends in a few weeks, maybe I can put a wee dent in the email list between November and early February when racing starts again…but then again who knows.

I have been told that I am good at writing obituaries, and boy do I have a pile of them to do. But they are rather taxing and I don’t write more than one a day when I do write them. And right now it just doesn’t feel right after losing a member of my own family last week. I really need to get down to work on those things, but not sure I can get through it right this moment.

My never ending list of email messages and pending work will apparently long outlast me, but at least I won’t lack a supply. Hopefully, I can make a dent in the pile…eventually!