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Productivity

Keep your writing app open

There are many techniques and methodologies and goodness knows what else that claim to help you with your productivity [https://www.iainbroome.com/blog/10-turn-offs-for-restless-writers-and-pen-shy-procrastinators] . For writers, there is often a battle to get started, but the keeping going, that’s also tough [https://www.iainbroome.com/blog/commitment], what

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What to do with your unfinished manuscript in 2013

It’s a new year and everyone is making resolutions and predictions. When it comes to writing, there are three main options, especially if you’re halfway through a major project and wondering what will happen to it in the coming months. Here are those options as I see them.

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Quality over quantity when it comes to practising your writing

This episode came about after reading a nice article by the designer, Frank Chimero [http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/1308140003/im-a-graphic-designer-but-i-feel-that-im-not-a-great] , where he talks about the need to write regularly as part of a practice routine. I agree mostly, but I also think that quality is more important than quantity.

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6 things you can stick in your ears to improve your writing

There are many things us writers can do to tinker with our writing environment. We can write at a different time of day or we can use a different piece of writing software. The options are endless. But I like to stick things my ears. And I’ll tell you

creativity

Open your writing mind with the morning papers

Guest post by Helia Phoenix [http://phoenixlily.tumblr.com] Earlier this year, I started reading The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Artists-Way-Discovering-Recovering-Creative/dp/0330343580] . The strapline for the book is “a course in discovering and recovering your creative self”, and it’s one of

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How to speed up your writing with AutoCorrect

The act of writing, as in the physical process of getting your work on to the screen, can be a tiresome business at times. Thankfully, there are plenty of really rather helpful writing software packages [https://www.iainbroome.com/blog/5-fantastic-computer-programs-for-writers] available to help you make things as painless as

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Time management and prioritising your priorities

Prioritise your priorities. Not my words, but the words of Rachelle Gardner [http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/06/time-management.html] over at her blog about her life as a literary agent. But they could be my words, because that’s pretty much what I do when it comes to my