Tag: Productivity
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An Effortless Content Workflow for Producing Great Writing on a Tight Calendar
I used to write blog posts the way I used to pack for trips: throw everything in at the last minute, panic, and hope the result was acceptable. It wasn’t. The posts were ragged. The suitcase was always missing something essential. And both activities left me exhausted and vaguely resentful of the entire process. Here’s…
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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 Five-Phase Writing Workflow That Eliminates Three Common Frustrations
I once asked a room full of writers to name their biggest struggle. The answers poured in, dozens of them, but they all collapsed into the same three complaints: I can’t get started. I can’t stop rambling. I can’t finish. Sound familiar? (If it doesn’t, congratulations, you’re either lying or you don’t write.) Here’s the…
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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…