One thing I’ve noticed as I read our Author Crush guest blogs is that routines are inevitable. Even when I think I’m not organized or methodical, I WILL have a routine. Even if it seems as though I’m procrastinating and ignoring the work, like [...]
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8
Mar
Lessons from Author Crush Month
Posted by Stephanie Shackelford Published in Making Goals, Productivity1 comment
1
Mar
I spent almost three hours on Saturday writing today’s blog. In fact, I had most of next week’s blog written, too. I only had to do some final polishing and format it for posting. I would have uploaded it then, but I was running late [...]
25
Jan
Bookshelving: a writer’s panning for gold
Posted by Stephanie Shackelford Published in Craft, Productivity Kitty’s post sent me to my bookshelf looking for books on revision. The one I searched for had some good information. The one I found was even better.
”Getting the Words Right: How to Revise, Edit and Rewrite,” [...]
18
Jan
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Posted by Stephanie Shackelford Published in Craft, ProductivityAs I mentioned previously, I’ve changed my focus from creating fiction to finishing several non-fiction projects. As I’ve reviewed the projects and decided on completion dates for each of them, I’ve noticed something interesting. I create and revise non-fiction exactly the same way as fiction. [...]
11
Jan
We are talking about revision all this month. Some of you are in the midst of revising and editing the novel you wrote during the chaos of November’s NaNoWriMo. Some don’t even want to look at it again. Some never wrote one. Even so, we all need to be [...]
4
Jan
In the small Southern town of Enterprise, Alabama, stands a statue of a woman in a flowing gown holding a boll weevil in her upraised hands. The plaque at her feet reads, “After the boll weevil destroyed (1910-15) the area’s cotton, locals began diversified farming. In gratitude for the [...]
28
Dec
One of my favorite quotes is what Teddy Roosevelt has to say about critics.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit [...]
21
Dec
Oops! I’m not sure how it happened, but writing this blog totally slipped my mind! Somehow, even though my new list of schedules and routines and to-dos clearly has “Write RFW blog” written in several places, I have nothing written. No jumbled page of disjointed thoughts that [...]
14
Dec
As I stated last week, I like routines. I need routines. Without routines, I flit from project to project, not finishing any of them. Routines make my life less complicated, more ready for spontaneity. I will re-establish my routines! I dub 2010, for me at least, the [...]
7
Dec
I’m a big fan of putting routines into place that make accomplishing your goals and desires as automatic as possible. That wasn’t always the case. Being the spontaneous, let’s have fun as often as we can type of person that I am, it took me a long time to realize that establishing routines would [...]
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