Category: Writing Discipline
My Love Affair With the Deadline
My love affair with the deadline has been a long, rich romance. My first exposure to the deadline was as a young project manager. In…
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Thirty Minutes or a Page a Day?
Thirty minutes a day or a page a day? Every productive writer has a different way of measuring their output. It is important. Most humans…
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These Things That Cause Us Pause
Story is not composed of the everyday routine happenings, but nearly every day there is a story that reveals itself to us. Every day contains…
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The Process Delivered Again
I came upstairs after work this evening and sat down to write at the dining room table. I had my notebooks, a pile of drafts…
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How the Work is Done
I want to tell you about the one thing I’ve been taught* in the past three years that has been the single most important learning…
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