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Virtual Assistants
How writers can delegate their admin time to free up more time to be creative
This feature first appeared in print in the July 2025 issue of Writing Magazine
The problem with the business of writing is that all the business stuff leaves less time for writing. Ultimately, as writers, we’d rather be writing than messing around creating social media campaigns, spending hours contacting book bloggers to create a new launch blog tour, remembering to track our advertising spend on Amazon and Meta, or getting bogged down with research.
The solution is to buy time back. Instead of doing all of this ourselves, we could find and pay someone else to do it all for us. Step forward the Virtual Assistant.
Virtual Assistance
A virtual assistant (VA) is not an artificial intelligence app, but an actual human being. However, instead of your assistant coming to work in your writing space, they typically work from their home, wherever that may be in the world, and all communication happens electronically.
While AI technology is moving forward at a frightening speed, there are benefits to paying a human to do some of your work for you.
‘An assistant is a person who will be a part of your team and help you reach your…
