Productivity
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Things are getting real over here with my writing career, y’all! In January, I finished the final self-edits for my novel, joined a writer’s workshop, had my first chapter critiqued, and bought the ISBNs for my paperback and ebook. Over the next eight weeks, I will be getting as much of my book critiqued as…
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Preoccupied with the rewrite of my book, researching about self-publishing, and building my author brand, I nearly forgot the most important part of all this: to keep writing. Really, the consensus, no matter which successful author you ask, is: “Did you just finish that project you’ve been working on for weeks/months/years? Great! Now get back…
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Recently, I have finished a book in two months and am ahead in my word count for NaNoWriMo all while teaching full-time and finishing grad school. Because of this, a question I keep getting from my students and coworkers is “how do you find the time?” Here’s the deal: I don’t have much time for…
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What I have discovered about myself recently is that I set goals that are extremely hard to reach. At times, I have even changed goals that are challenging but still obtainable into larger goals that I just can’t quite meet. The problem with this is, even though I have achieved or even surpassed the original…
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I have been struggling the past month or so with working through writer’s block. When I was younger, I thought writer’s block was just an excuse people gave themselves for being lazy, but over the past few years, I have had several instances of writer’s block that have taken months and months of productive writing…
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