Prioritizing writing projects

On any given day, I have multiple freelance writing projects to be done or in progress. I have paid work to do, things to write on spec, my own web content projects to update or create content for and queries and submissions to write. Often, the hardest thing to do is prioritizing the things on my plate.

I survive by making a list. It shows impending deadlines and those usually come first. But, more difficult is dividing my time between the things that will earn me immediate (or within the next month or two anyway) money versus the things that are more long term in nature.

Some days I think I do a good job of setting my priorities. Other days, I look at my half done novel and just shake my head.