Strategy Number Three: Environment. How did you go with just starting? In part four of our series on defeating resistance, this week I’m looking at the environment where you write. Sometimes, you have no control over the physical environment in which you write. The local coffee shop is going to be noisy, although there […]
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Last week’s log: MONDAY: 7,839 TUESDAY: 7,305 WEDNESDAY: 8,169 THURSDAY: 6,104 FRIDAY: 9,255 SATURDAY: 11,737 (Finished book) For a total word count of 50,409 words for the week. Another really good solid week. I finished the book on Saturday, which now puts me only nine days behind my production schedule. The next book on the
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Strategy Number Two: Just Start. Last week we looked at some of the mental blocks that help resistance get a foothold in your brain. When resistance is at its most active, though, is the few moments before you sit down and start writing, to about twenty minutes after you have “started” (if you actually
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Strategy Number One: Mindset Today we’re looking at the first strategy of five approaches to defeating resistance and getting more written. Last week [here] I explained why you need these five strategies. All of us do. Resistance is built into the human psyche. How you approach resistance, deal with it, and how you think
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What is resistance? Are you a victim of it? Probably! The term “Resistance” was first coined by Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art. To Pressfield, Resistance is an external entity against whom artists must wage war to win at the game of writing. For him, Resistance always has a capital “R”. As
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Last week’s log: MONDAY: 6,635 words TUESDAY: 12,374 words WEDNESDAY: 9,481 words THURSDAY: 10,495 words FRIDAY: 12,002 words SATURDAY: 5,547 words For a total of 56,534 words for the week. It’s interesting how much your perspective can change in the space of a week or so. If you look merely at the word count, this was a spectacular week
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This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | If you have followed along with Part One and Part Two of this blog post, then you will have all your prep work done and be ready to dive into building your first production schedule. So let’s go. Backwards or Forwards?
This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | How To Set Up Your Production Sheet Last week I went through the many reasons why building yourself a tailored production sheet pays some very nice dividends, both in the long and the short term. You can find that post here.
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This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Do you need a production schedule? If you are a writer, and you have any commercial ambitions at all, then yes, you do. A well-built production schedule will help you stop the overwhelm, restore your sanity, and give you a proper
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Once you have been writing for a while, the way you write becomes calcified. This is usually a good thing, because everything gets a little bit easier, you grow comfortable dealing with a vast range of interlocking skills, and you can complete everything just a little faster. When you’ve been writing for a long while,
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