The “living well” part of the productive equation means that sometimes, you have to put aside writing in order to pay attention to important other stuff. That was my week, last week. My husband and I share the same birthday, which also happens to be the date we met and the date we got married […]
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This week’s newsletter came out this morning. Ah, the lure of “better”. Check your inbox! t.
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The conventional view of creatives is often that of Bohemians, living on the edge of society and obeying no laws other than those imposed by their muse. Creatives are seen as flaky and unreliable, poor and spiritually free. They live in clusters, supporting and encouraging each other, but seem to spend a lot of
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There is no such thing as a “typical” week. There’s the ideal average, but that’s something in your imagination, good only for measuring your progress against. So are word counts, which are the ultimate measure, proof against any argument. I had an atypical week, which by its very uniqueness is really a typical week.
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This week’s newsletter came out this morning, with a tool for recovering your weekends. Check your inbox! t.
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When I hear of a new, complete productivity system, I tend to shudder a little bit. I have tried them all over the years. The last big sweeping, 100% all-in attempt I made to adopt someone else’s system was when Getting Things Done (GTD) was at the peak of its initial popularity. It was because that
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Last week was a good week, wordcount wise. I always like getting into the actual writing of a book, because it feels like real progress is being made. Mostly, the speed is an illusion, because plotting just doesn’t have any benchmarks to show things are progressing–you can mull in your head for days and have
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This week’s newsletter came out this morning, and in it I talked about how to “Fool Your Perfectionist Tendencies and Increase Your Effectiveness.” Check your inbox!
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Have you ever looked at your goals at the start of the year and wished you could just wave a magic wand and have it all happen for you? Because you know that, deep in your gut, very few of your goals will actually be met, even though you fully intend to knock yourself out
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What I learned this week: If you can just hang in there, regroup and knuckle down, good things come. After the panic last week when we faced losing one of two monthly incomes, things have settled down a bit. We won’t be completely without income (insurance and vacation pay will fill in some
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