Three lessons for writers in a story about procrastination

Allie Jaynes (pictured above) was the type of 36-year-old you might call a “hot mess.” She was scattered, disorganized and a world traveler who lost her passport regularly. I recently listened to a radio documentary about her and her diagnosis with ADHD as an adult. (Her story grabbed my attention because my son has the […]

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Why you should spend more time thinking

Are you spending enough time thinking? In a recent blog post, Deep Work expert Cal Newport, meditated on a quote from Ernest Hemingway in which the writer said: “My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.” As a thoughtful academic, Newport reflected on his own experiences as a writer —

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Talk better to yourself

I often write about how we talk to ourselves, usually in a highly negative way, as in: My sentences are so boring. I’m a terrible writer. No one enjoys reading what I’m producing. My supervisor/editor/boss thinks I’m a loser. But I didn’t know, until I read a fabulous new book called Chatter by psychologist Ethan

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