Like it or not, the holiday season is officially here.
I love giving and receiving presents, but the people around me are super difficult to buy for. People say they don’t want a present, but if they buy you something and you don’t buy them anything, things get awkward.
But what on earth do you buy a writer?
I've been a huge fan of Scrivener for a few years now, so I couldn't wait to get my hands on Scrivener 3 when it came out. I'd originally planned to...
Nobody likes to fail. Failing is horrible. It’s a sign that you’re a failure and will never achieve anything worthwhile in life. Or is it? When we...
So you’re stuck in a funk and you don’t know how to get out.
Well you’ve come to the right place.
I used to get stuck a lot.
Truth is, I still do sometimes.
But it’s my job to write content. I can’t afford to get stuck.
So here’s what I do instead.
I first announced Productivity for Writers back in January 2016. SO MUCH has happened since then. I decided to make Productivity for Writers my...
I never used to talk about my depression much. When I first wrote a draft of this post—back in October 2015!—there was only one person I discussed it with.
Since then, I’ve tried to be more open about my experiences in the hopes that it helps other people, too.
It’s not easy, though.
They say that women are better at multitasking. Who this ‘they’ is, I’m not sure, but they shouldn’t be encouraging women—or men—to multitask.
Multitasking isn’t good for productivity. It’s terrible for it.
The more tasks you do at once, the more your focus is split.
Because of this, you’re more likely to get confused and make simple mistakes.
Some people see perfection as a badge of honour; a cross to bear that they just have to carry the burden of. They use it as their biggest weakness...
There isn’t a single published writer out there who hasn’t been rejected at least once.
In fact, I think you’d struggle to find a writer who’s only been rejected once.
Even Stephen King had short stories rejected when he first started out.
Harry Potter was rejected by numerous publishers, and J.K.Rowling had some pretty harshly-worded rejection letters for her Cormoran Strike novels, too.
Some authors get to the point where their name alone is enough to attract the attention of a publisher.
To get to that point, though, you have to go through what feels like endless rejections.
Think of your energy levels like a battery.
Certain things recharge that battery, while others drain it.
You may find dealing with people draining, while alone time recharges you.
You may find that some days writing helps you to recharge, while on other days it drains you. It can depend on what stage of the writing process you’re at, or what’s going on in your life outside of your writing.
Just like when you let your phone battery get close to 0%, the lower your battery levels get, the longer it takes to recharge.