Know Yourself for Better Efficiency

/ February 5, 2014/ advice, anxiety, goals, my non-professional opinion, self-discovery, Task-Setting for Writers, tips/ 0 comments

For the last month, I’ve been slogging through first round revisions for my self-dubbed “light and fun” YA contemporary, and it’s been hell. The revision process has been so bad I recently had a weekend-long panic attack. While I’m known to tweet/FB things like “Revisions. Grrr…,” I’m not opposed to the process. It’s an accepted fact of the writer life.

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Task-Setting for Writers, Part IV: The Power of “No.”

/ April 12, 2011/ life, my non-professional opinion, Task-Setting for Writers, time management, writing/ 6 comments

Welcome to the final installment of Task-Setting for Writers. If you missed a week, you can read the previous three weeks here. By now it’s been established that we’re here because we need help getting everything done that we want to get done. Case in point, this week I spread myself too thin: date night with Hubby, the final meeting

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Task-Setting For Writers, Part III: Bargains and Compromises

/ April 5, 2011/ life, my non-professional opinion, Task-Setting for Writers, time management/ 3 comments

Welcome to part three of task-setting for writers. You can read weeks one and two here. There are some people out there that totally own the hand-off. My experience shows this happens with managers of some sort who drop the crap tasks on their underlings/interns. But your’re not here to discuss my traumatic work history. You’re here because you want

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