Writing Productivity Tip #7: Work Your Quirks We’ve all got writing quirks and mannerisms. Writing quirks include grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, or little things you do that readers could find annoying. For example: While writing quickly, you make the wrong choice between its and it’s, or your and you’re. Awkward sentences suddenly appear in your drafts like unwelcome houseguests. You […]
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Write for Flow, Not Perfection
Writing Productivity Tip #4: Give Your Inner Editor the Day Off You’re ready to start drafting something – a blog post, report, short story, or chapter of a nonfiction book. Do you write swiftly and efficiently? Or do you spend time struggling over word choice and sentence structure? The best possible case is to achieve a state of […]
Write What You Don’t Know (Yet)
Writing Productivity Tip #2: Write What You Don’t Know – Yet! Every writer hears the mantra: “Write what you know.” The heck with that. What fun would it be if we only wrote what everyone already knew? Try writing to figure out what you want to know. In other words, Write before you know what you’re […]
Secrets of Crazy-Productive Writers
Everyone cherishes the image of a tortured writer, laboring long hours, crumpling sheets of paper, drinking in a back room, spiraling into depression. That doesn’t sound like much fun for the writer. I’d rather be someone who writes fluidly and creatively, while engaging with the world, family and friends. A normal person, in other words. […]
