Not in the same instance, of course. But simultaneously across days or weeks. If you find it difficult getting just one story done, you’re probably thinking I’m crazy. A couple of weeks ago, I would have agreed with you. However, in the recent big shake up around here, my schedule also got shaken up to […]
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It feels like my creative brain invents a new way to ease me away from writing every time I identity the last super-sneaky version. I uncovered another mental habit keeping me from writing, the last few weeks, that you might be dealing with yourself. I’ve been deluged with administration stuff lately, with the work of
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Fellow author and best selling post-apocalyptic and SF writer Kevin Partner has just put out a book on author productivity: Ten Minute Author: Writers write. Authors Finish. How to write your novel or non-fiction book one step at a time. You will find the book useful, if you struggle with procrastination and Resistance. I can
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Ryan Holiday has a post, “How Your Daily Routine Can Turn Into Your Biggest Enemy“, where he talks about how routines and rituals can make you fragile and easy to throw off-kilter–all of which is true. His solution is to have routines, not just a routine. If you prefer to write in silence, but they’re
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Most of us are time crunched, and squeeze in 30 minute or one hour writing dashes one or more times a day, getting books written in increments. And this is absolutely a fantastic way to write in the cracks and margins of you day and still have a life. But. There are some serious side
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As you can imagine, I read a lot of productivity books. Every month, more of them pop up. And over the last year or so I’ve noticed a trend in the common philosophy of many of them. It is the tiny habit approach to productivity. And I can’t tell you how much that trend
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There’s a great deal of chatter online at the moment about the mental health of everyone still in lockdown and stuck at home. I can vouch for that, and I even know why. The first two weeks of being stuck at home, I could not get my shit together for neither love nor money. I
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This Is The New Normal In April, 14 Million people in the USA applied for unemployment benefits. Six million people applied for emergency assistance in Canada. Around the world, the numbers of unemployed and those with reduced income are proportional to populations. Last week, my government spoke for the first time about the duration of
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Just a quick post this week. I’m getting back into the working groove and suddenly becoming (re)aware of the plethora of distractions that can lure you away from your manuscript–especially when you’re working at home, which is pretty much all of us right now. When you’re at home, you don’t have people looking over your
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Words used to flow easily for me. Not so much, these days. I — like you, I am sure — am struggling to get words down in a regular manner. The puzzling thing for me was why am I struggling? I’m not sick. No one in my immediate family is sick (thanks to whoever
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