Reading time: Just over 3 minutes Want to play a part in my next book? Consider joining my book launch team! Details below… My next book, Your Happy First Draft, is going to the printer this month. Yahoo! Even though I’m by nature a died-in-the wool awfulizer, I cannot believe how […]
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A few years ago, I was shopping for a Toastmaster’s group. It wasn’t because I was scared of public speaking — I’m not. And it wasn’t because I’m particularly bad at speaking in public — I see myself as at least reasonably competent in this area. I simply wanted to sharpen my skills with more
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Reading time: Just over 5 minutes Do you need some tips for writing from home? If you find it hard to get settled or impossible to accomplish anything, here’s my advice on how to turn yourself into a productivity master… I’ve always loved working from home. Oops, let me correct
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How can you maintain your energy during a big writing project? So, let me begin by talking about sleep: Human beings fall into three categories: night owls, morning larks and “third birds” — the people who are somewhere in between. Right now, I’m a morning lark but I spent the majority of my life as
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I learned the word “automaticity” when my (now adult) son was diagnosed as dyslexic. He was nine-years old and I hadn’t been able to teach him to read, despite his obvious intelligence and huge vocabulary. We spent several years knocking our heads against brick walls before an educational psychologist finally diagnosed him. Then, we spent
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Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Do you know how to work when you don’t feel like it? These seven tricks can help you survive the hottest summer…. Compared to the rest of the year, my phone rings half as often in the summer and my email takes a dip
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Many people in the Get It Done group are working on one major document — a book, a thesis or a dissertation. But others in the group need to juggle several smaller pieces of work at a time. (It’s mostly academics who fit into this category.) If you’re a multiple project person, today’s post will
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Reading time: Just over 4 minutes Many of us spend huge chunks of our days writing email. If this is one of your jobs, here’s how to write better email…. Did you know that more than half of the people who receive email cite it as a source of workplace
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A member of the Get It Done group recently asked me how she could create better boundaries around the open-ended aspects of her writing work. By “open-ended” she was referring to issues like: How long she should work each day Whether she should end at a proscribed time How she could identify the next steps
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Reading time: About 9 minutes (skimmable in 4) Few subjects are as mysterious as the art of finding your voice. If you’re a writer struggling with that problem, here’s what I suggest you do… What is writer’s voice? And, how can you find yours? You’d think this should be a simple
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