Daphne Gray-Grant

How to create better boundaries

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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How productive should writers expect to be?

Before reading this post, please watch the following video: It’s a clip from the old TV show I Love Lucy, and it’s the episode in which Lucy and her friend Ethel work at a chocolate factory. I’m beginning with the video because it perfectly illustrates what I’d call a losing proposition. There was NO WAY

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When procrastination might HELP you….

I’m not typically a big believer in procrastination. Instead, I tend to admire such aphorisms as: You may delay but time will not. (Ben Franklin) Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. (Charles Dickens) Eat that frog! (Brian Tracy) But there are two exceptions to my “get things done now” tendencies. Both reflect times

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How to deal with momentum

A member of this group recently asked me whether I thought they should take advantage of the “momentum” they were currently feeling. In this particular case, it meant the writer would have had to defer research and planning, so that they could write. The downside, they admitted, was that their writing would be a bit

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But, actually….

Reading time: Less than 1 minute This is my weekly installment of “writing about writing,” in which I scan the world to find websites, books and articles to help other writers. Today I discuss a blog post about the words ‘but’ and ‘actually’…. I read a blog post this week about delivering better customer support

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