Just say nay

If you’re not a Shrek aficionado, this blog post’s title will make you go “huh,” but I like to amuse myself.  This isn’t very hard to do (I’m a lot like Shrek that way).   I know I’ve talked before about the importance of protecting your writing time, but if the conversations I overhear on…

Open the office door

Yesterday I talked about how we can sometimes get a little too narrow-minded in pursuit of goals, filtering out everything extraneous and “irrelevant.”  As writers, though, we need to be exposed to new ideas, new thinking, alternative points of view, so that our work can stay interesting, worthwhile and meaningful.   It can be hard…

Big Projects and Productivity

A comment on a previous post points out that people sometimes get stuck on long projects and stall because they haven’t figured out the next step.  “Write a book” seems a little daunting.  You can’t get it done today.  So you shy away from getting started at all.    Productivity gurus talk about figuring out…