[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Authors who hold down full-time jobs outside of our writing activities often have a love-hate relationship with our “first” careers. On one hand, we love what we do — hopefully, or why do it, right? — and we also enjoy the relative security that a regular…
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Prioritize Your Writing EVERY DAY– Quick Writing Tip
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] What are your writing priorities for tomorrow? That is, when you’ve finished at your day job or cleared away your chores or settled in for some late-night creating, what will you be working on? (And if you don’t already have your writing blocks scheduled, you better get to it.) Dabbler…
‘Stop Doing’ to Become a More Productive Writer — Quick Writing Tip
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] We all carry a lot of baggage that weighs us down and keeps us from achieving all we could. Some of this excess blubber is the price of living in the world and may be unavoidable to some extent — things like commuting, preparing meals, going bowling with your father-in-law…
Prioritize for More Productive Writing — Quick Writing Tip
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Even if you successfully break down your goals into bite-sized chunks — such as daily goals and mini-milestones — there is still a danger of not achieving your goals. The problem is that we all have a stack of competing tasks and, even when we work in manageable fragments, we…