If you have 6 one month projects, you could either deliver all at the end of six months, or concentrate on one at a time. The total work is the same, but the a

If you have 6 one month projects, you could either deliver all at the end of six months, or concentrate on one at a time. The total work is the same, but the average delivery is earlier. And you alleviate the risk of never actually delivering anything. Your job you probably need to keep. Can you split up the novel, the contracting etc into projects & features and tasks - deliverables - in those? Rather than spending a few hours on one, then a few hours on another, just focus on one project or feature at a time and keep going till you deliver it.