So, I'm writing this book...

It occurred to me today that I have a matter of months to complete the manuscript for a book. An actual book. To be published by Penguin Australia in 2012. The working title is I want a career and a life!: How to thrive as a working mother, and I'm writing it with the fabulous Kate Sykes, founder of careermums.com.au (which, if you haven't discovered it yet, is an incredible resource for working parents).

So far, so exciting.

Except that I'm a journalist and, as discussed previously, I tend to be a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-deadline style of journo - which means I'm frantically typing the night before a story is due. All well and good when you have 1000 words to produce. Not a great approach when you have thousands and thousands and thousands  to deliver by a set date.

The good news is that it's not my first book, so I do have an idea of what's involved. I've previously introduced my little pink book (Credit Card Stressbusters), and I've also ghost-written an autobiography in the past (no, I won't tell you which one). But this book is the one that's due in a matter of months. And the bad news is that I do have an idea of what's involved.

Why am I telling you all this? Motivation, of course. Now that I've told you all it has to be done, there's a serious accountability factor.

Feel free to crack a whip any time you fancy it.

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