Tag: Daily Habits
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A Straightforward Routine for Producing One Strong Article Every Week
The best writing advice I ever received was delivered in slippers. Mine, not someone else’s. I’d dragged myself to my desk on a cold morning, wrapped in flannel, nursing a cup of coffee that was more hope than caffeine, and I realized: the articles I was most proud of hadn’t been written in heroic marathon…
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A Reliable System for Writers Who Struggle to Deliver on Time
If you have trouble meeting deadlines, you’re reinforcing a stereotype I loathe: “Creative people are flaky.” That statement makes my blood boil. But I understand where it comes from. For professional writers, distractions aren’t always the enemy, they’re often the raw material of insight. The line between productive wandering and plain procrastination gets blurry, and…
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A Ninety-Day Roadmap for Finishing Your Content Endeavor
At the end of June 2009, I got an idea: I should write an ebook. My writing and editing business was less than a year old. I had never written anything that resembled a book. The notion should have felt absurd. It didn’t. It felt like the next step I’d been avoiding by calling it…
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A Detail-Oriented Writer’s Twelve-Step Preflight Guide for Blog Posts
I once watched a writer accidentally publish a half-finished draft to a site with six figures of daily traffic. The post went live with a placeholder headline that read “WORKING TITLE, FIX THIS.” It sat there, in all its glory, for forty-seven minutes before anyone noticed. That writer was not me. (This time.) But it…