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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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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Following on in the revision series, where I’m examining all the original posts on the PIFW site and bringing them up to date, so they reflect the current state of the indie publishing scene. Today, I’m reviewing ‘Why “Writer”?’, which first appeared on January 5, 2018. Productivity concerns are not the exclusive province of writers,
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One of the most basic, most quoted tenets of productivity, one engraved into our brains, is “avoid distractions”. Only, that isn’t taking it nearly far enough — something I (re)learned this week…finally. I don’t know about you, but when I read or hear a version of “avoid distractions”, I tend to slide over the statement
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Productivity concerns are not the exclusive province of writers, although we tend to agonize over such matters because we’re self-employed and have no one to prod us back to work when we wander off-track. We’re also creatively effective at procrastinating ourselves into the ground. I could have made this blog about productivity for everyone in
