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 […]
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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As you saw last week, I’ve been having health issues. Still. It’s an ongoing, nearing-chronic problem that has kept me from the desk for weeks, and I’m still not putting in what I consider a full day’s work, even as I write this post. I haven’t written any fiction for nearly four weeks. I can
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Last week we looked at what a writing schedule is (and isn’t) and why you would want to use one. This week: How to build your schedule. _____ Your Typical Day The idea with this step is to build a “typical” day. That might mean every day of the week looks different, and you must
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I’m currently working through some of the original posts on this site, which are now several years old, and updating them for the times we currently face, to build in some resilience and flexibility so you can succeed in a future you may not be able to guess the shape of right now. Today’s post
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This is Part Two of a post. Part One is here. Last week we looked at the reasons why Overwhelm can dump on you, usually appearing out of the blue. This week, some tactics and strategies to deal with Overwhelm. The key: Regain control. If you’re already at the point of overwhelm, then you don’t
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This is an update of the March 4, 2018 post. The updated Part 2 of this post is here. —- While technically an update, this post—on one of the more important topics on the site—also reflects the challenges of our current times. As a result, I had to split the post into two parts. Oh,
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Today I’m looking at tech tools I use almost every day, continuing on from last week when I looked at the tools I have open on my desk every day. BookFunnel Actually, I think I use BookFunnel every day, too. There might be a few days here and there when I’m not in the dashboard,
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This is an update of the post “Tools To Enhance Your Writing Life”, published on March 2, 2018. That post was also an update on a much earlier post in 2011 and includes the 2011 observations and the 2018 updates. Today, I’ll just comment on 2022’s status. And because the post ended up far longer
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