Steps towards Building a Regular Writing Routine: Find Your Inspiration
Are you finding it difficult to commit to a regular writing routine? Do you find yourself hesitant to sit down in front of the computer in the morning? Lacking inspiration could be the reason behind your inability to get down to business habitually. Whether you’re doing creative writing, online copywriting or the creation of factual […]
How to prepare for NaNoWriMo 2018
Plotter or Panster? So come on, which are you? Plotters (okay yes, I admit it) like to have some idea of where we’re going and the good news is that with Nanowrimo THIS IS NOT CHEATING. The thing about being a plotter is that you don’t have to work chronologically. John Irving doesn’t start until […]
How to Harness the Power of Minimalism to Become More Productive
Table of Contents Do Less and Accomplish More by Applying Minimalist Principles to Your Life. For some, the term “minimalist lifestyle” brings to mind a scrawny monk wearing a tattered robe in a barren room with no WiFi. However, minimalism is not about living in squalor, eschewing material goods and technology, going vegan, or backpacking […]
7 Steps to Bring Your Work-Life Balance into Sync
How to Achieve Work-Life Balance in a Digital World According to Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, “most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important”. It is too easy to forget that there is a difference. Just because we (or our […]
The Benefits of Deep Work and How to Establish It
After stumbling across an interesting article entitled “Why Deep Work Matters in a Distracted World” I found myself cataloguing just how much time is lost to shallow work (read more here). By shallow work, I mean doing work (in my case writing), while: People are present I’m listening to music I have multiple projects open at […]
Too Late To Make New Year Resolutions?
So how are those New Year Resolutions going? I’m not really a huge fan. You know how it goes: you start off so well, dead keen, then three days in and you’ve missed a few… before you know it, you’re writing the whole year off as a failure. But perhaps there are some resolutions […]
What’s Your Excuse? – A Writer’s Daily Fight Against Procrastination
We writers turn procrastination into an art form: ‘I just need to do this first…’ Procrastination takes many guises. Here are a few that may sound familiar: I can’t write in all this clutter Clutter can be physical and/or psychological. It may feel like it is impossible to write if your desk is untidy. Your […]
