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How to use Evernote

Before you start a long-form writing project – whether it’s a book or a dissertation (or something else) be sure you have a piece of software for recording and saving your research.   If you are an academic, consider software that will both manage your research AND automatically create citations for you. You can see a […]

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When you should sometimes give yourself permission NOT to write

The Get It Done program is about support, accountability, common sense and honesty. While most of us will acknowledge that honesty is a great policy, however, you might have a hard time figuring out what it has to do with writing. Here’s why I think honesty is so important: If you commit to producing 350

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Why conditioning is important for writers as well as athletes

Many of my clients tell me they want to commit great gobs of time to writing. Two hours, they’ll say if they’re academics. And for everyone else the time commitment they suggest is usually, a full hour. But this enormous amount of time is almost always a mistake. Why? Because you aren’t well enough conditioned

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Are you faithfully tracking your writing?

I strongly encourage every participant in the Get it Done program to track their writing progress every day (and by that I mean five days a week.) I’ve long called this process the “secret sauce” to writing success because it gives you five incredibly worthwhile benefits: The tracking chart will reduce your stress about writing. You’ll

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Looking for citation management software? Here’s what to do…

This post recaps the information I presented in our group call on Monday, March 4/19 and it provides a number of links I think you’ll find useful. Start your search for citation management software by understanding there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Software that’s perfect for one person might be totally inappropriate for another. This does

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Why you aren’t allowed to postpone your writing to ‘the weekend’

Reading time: Just over 1 minute When I launched the Get It Done program in 2013, I quickly discovered many writers were eager to postpone their work until the weekend. (By ‘weekend’ I mean your designated two days off, whatever they are.) “I didn’t write today, so I’m going to catch up on Saturday,” people

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