I first posted about creatives’ lifestyles back in 2018, and now I’m bringing it forward and updating it, because this topic gets very short shrift when it comes to talking about a creative career. We’ve all survived the first two years of a global pandemic when all of us have been in lockdown for most […]
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This is an update of an original post from 2018. You can spend a lot of time teaching yourself to resist Resistance, to get your ass in the chair, to be productive. It’s a never-ending challenge. There is a flip side, though. I’m looking at it right now. If you’re following my work logs, you
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The image, I’m afraid, is not a metaphor. Yesterday, full of energy and determination, I headed out into the garden to cut a new bed for our veggies this year. Forty minutes later, I found myself flat on my back, with my arm screaming at me. I had fallen, and tried to save myself with
Another essential tool in the prolific author’s toolbox.
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You don’t have a lot of time to write during the day. Just a hour or a tad more, because you’ve got commitments and a life and bills that keep showing up. (We took down our mailbox…they still showed up via email.) Every minute of your writing time is precious. But everything and everyone is
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I’ve had severe health issues that stretch back nearly a year, now. I lost an entire month of work because of it, and more days off here and there because of complications. At one point, while COVID was at its most severe, I risked going to the ER, believing that I had either pancreatic cancer
There have been any number of gurus and productivity experts out there who hawk their solutions as “painless” and “easy”. It makes sense to make a new system or app sound completely effortless, because it sells. Unfortunately, if an app or system or hack really is effortless to use, then it doesn’t do anything. Anything
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A small ice age ago, when I started this site, I wrote original content for a weekly newsletter attached to this site as well as original content for the site itself. The newsletter didn’t seem to appeal to writers, so I quickly ceased producing it. I’ve had to jump to new email service providers several
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Most productivity books and gurus tend to focus on time management — finding more time and how to squeeze more into that time, and also, inevitably, how to choose your priorities because no one can do it all, these days. Graham Allcott, author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja, comes at productivity in a
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When I first started this site, I was super ambitious, and wrote a post for each weekly newsletter, as well as a full post for the blog, AND the work log each week. All the original posts I wrote for the email newsletter have gone. I don’t have them on my hard drive anymore and
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