Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Jan 05 2010
Taking a little off the top
One of the things that helps me get things done is to take one task each day that I haven't worked on for awhile and do a little work on it. It helps with projects around the house, but it also helps the battle with office clutter. Best of all, it helps with writing projects. I can take one file and clean it out, or take one work in progress and do a little polishing or editing. I can certainly start a new project, but starting is easy for me. It's finishing that gets me into difficulty. In this case, the goal is to take something already in progress and make it better, add to it, edit superfluous words. Now and then a project gets tossed. It's tough to do that, but if the project still sticks in my mind I can always pick up the idea and run with it again. Writers tend to be paperholics to some extent, so working on a few pieces of paper here and there helps keep the clutter monster at bay and has even been known to spark the marriage of two writing projects into a larger, more involved piece of writing.
posted at: 10:34 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
One of the things that helps me get things done is to take one task each day that I haven't worked on for awhile and do a little work on it. It helps with projects around the house, but it also helps the battle with office clutter. Best of all, it helps with writing projects. I can take one file and clean it out, or take one work in progress and do a little polishing or editing. I can certainly start a new project, but starting is easy for me. It's finishing that gets me into difficulty. In this case, the goal is to take something already in progress and make it better, add to it, edit superfluous words. Now and then a project gets tossed. It's tough to do that, but if the project still sticks in my mind I can always pick up the idea and run with it again. Writers tend to be paperholics to some extent, so working on a few pieces of paper here and there helps keep the clutter monster at bay and has even been known to spark the marriage of two writing projects into a larger, more involved piece of writing.
posted at: 10:34 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
