Before 2014 I Spent a Thousand Hours a Year Watching Other People’s Work
They say they are too busy to exercise, too tired to cook, too overwhelmed to read, and too stressed to see friends. Then they watch Netflix for four hours.
Tag: productivity
Finishing things. Writing sessions that produce pages, the difference between drafting and editing, and what it takes to hold a book together start to finish.
Book WritingFinishing Is a Separate Skill From Writing
Almost nobody stops writing a book because they cannot write. They stop at one of three predictable places.
ADHDEvery Marketing Book Assumed I Had a Normal Brain
Maintain consistent daily habits. Network regularly. Follow a systematic content calendar. I tried forcing myself into that mould for years and burned out every time.
AIThe Other Path Does Not Announce Itself
An amplifier of thinking instead of a replacement for it. The difference is invisible from inside, which is why the wrong path is the easy one.
Book ROI & Business CaseI Made $25,000 in a Year From Things in My Closet. Here Is What Changed.
A thousand items, twenty-five thousand dollars, one year. eBay has changed under sellers since 2003, and most of the advice out there describes a platform that no longer exists.
Book ROI & Business CaseThe Rose Parade Pins That Stopped Me Decluttering
I had the display case open and the pins counted. Then I checked what they were worth, and the arithmetic stopped me. Knowing when to stop is the part nobody teaches.
Overcoming Writing ResistanceWriting Goals: Why Annual Goals Fail, Daily Goals Work, and How I Actually Get Books Finished
Every January I set ambitious annual goals, and every March they are rubble, buried under client deadlines and surprises. A year is simply too long to hold focus. What actually produces books for me is daily goals and task-based deadlines.…
Overcoming Writing ResistanceWhy Most Writing Resolutions Fail by February
Writing resolutions rely on motivation, and motivation is gone by late January. Write more is not a goal. What replaces willpower, and why the resolution was usually the wrong shape to begin with.
productivityYour Scattered Brain Might Be Your Biggest Writing Advantage
The attention that will not sit still is the same attention that makes connections nobody else makes. How to build a writing practice around that instead of fighting it into a shape it will never hold.
Author TalksKim Groshek: The Pause Power Movement and Taking 15 Minutes a Day to Unplug
Kim Groshek joins Author Talks to discuss the Pause Power Movement, a year off her phone, and her framework of pausing, time-boxing, and agreement.
Career StoryFrom Trader Joe’s to Zombie Apocalypses: The Born to Write Interview | With Azul Terronez
The September 11, 2019 Born to Write interview: celebrity ghostwriters versus the credibility mid-market, the wrestler predecessor and the Afghani client's escape from a prison of 15,000 skeletons, vomit-on-the-page drafting from 4:30 a.m., three promotion hours in every eight, BookBub…
Book CoachingA Book From Start to Finish: The Farewell Masterclass | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 261
The May 21, 2019 farewell hour: category research, pantsers versus plotters, 5,000-word days in walk-broken sprints, professional editors and specific beta readers, AutoCrit far superior to Grammarly for fiction, the category-one launch push, the yes-yes hypnosis of webinar traps, consignment…