In my post Dealing with Distraction Syndrome, I mainly covered the effect the internet has on our lives and our writing. Yet there is much more than just the internet that causes procrastination.
Category: Organisation
How To Organise Your Writing On The Computer
If someone asked me what I wish I had known when I first started writing that would have helped me now, I think my answer would have been starting my electronic organising earlier. Throughout my time of writing, I have amassed huge amounts of scenes, notes, ideas, plots, character profiles, lists, maps, pictures and more. All of which is connected to SEVERAL novel series’, so yes, an organised system was needed.
How To Get Your Shit Together
Do you ever wish you could just get your shit together?
Following a seemingly endless period of low ups and deep downs, I found that my writing took a back seat for a while.
I didn’t want it to but everything was so hectic and stressful in my life that I couldn’t hear my writing voice.
It had started with the death of my Grandmother and the grieving felt never-ending.
How To Find A Balance Between Writing & Life
One (of the many) areas that can make a writer struggle is the intolerable attempts at trying to balance your writing life with... well everything else. That is not an easy task at the best of time, never mind when you're bombarded day and night with the chatter of characters.
Why You Should Create A Six Box To-Do List
Are you a To-Do list fiend? Do you want to travel the world? Write a novel? Compose an opera? Learn a language?
Then you might like this post 🙂 The concept of the Six Box To-Do List, is to make a list of all those projects you want to do.
Taking Stock Of What’s Important
Being ill made me fall far behind in a lot of things; work, my online shop, my degree, my writing.
So I have had to work overtime, cram in extra study-time and work longer to complete orders.
Things are starting to settle back into more of a routine. So with this, I have taken stock.
How To Be A More Organised Writer (pt.2)
Getting and staying organised really can help you eliminate wasted time.
I'm a big proponent of organisation so following on from my first post about becoming a more organised writer, I thought I'd give you some more tips.
If you missed it, you can check it out: How to be a more organised writer (pt.1).
How To Be A More Organised Writer (pt.1)
In the last article, I discussed How best to organise your time outside of writing. Now let's move onto become a more organised writer.
Every writer is different and so not all suggestion here will work for you. However, you will hopefully find some of these useful.
Tools Of The Trade For Writers
While the idea of just paper and pen may have been the tools needed back in the day for writers, most of us have more requirements now.
So here is my list of writer tools that I find useful. We are all different and so you might not need all of these, but I think at least some of these are good for every writer to have.
How To Best Organise Your Time Outside Of Writing
While you don’t have to be the most organised person to be a writer, I swear that it is DOES help to be able to manage your time efficiently. Before we even move on to being organised in your writing, we need to think about the bigger picture (awful cliché but sometimes the bad ones work best!).
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