Archive for the ‘Procrastination’ Category
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Fire Up Your Writing Career
06 Mar 2013Here's a psychological tool to help with focusing your writer's mind - dealing with issues such as procrastination and self-sabotage, and staying creative.
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Post-Christmas Tip: Everything counts
02 Jan 2013Aiming to get a little writing done now that the holidays are over – or even a lot of writing…
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Four steps to starting a compelling script
10 Sep 2012People often ask how to get ideas. Of course ideas are all around. What they mean is where do you find ideas you know will work. Ideas that will stay alive and grow. Nothing is certain, but I've found these four steps will ignite my blue touch-paper.
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What do you do next? Procrastinate?
04 Aug 2012Last Monday I talked about finishing. So after you’ve finished – what do you do next? Do you push on…
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Are we there yet?
30 Jul 2012There must be something in the air: I’m in the mood for finishing things. I just finished writing a novel…
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Stuck? A simple way to get your work moving.
09 Mar 2012Here's a deceptively simple method for literally getting your work to move forwards - but don't be fooled. Like many simple ideas it can be profoundly useful. It works for all kinds of screenwriting, and other creative work, and also for problems in directing and producing.
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Find Time for Your Real Writing
07 Nov 2011My son Oliver, whose first novel The Hollow Man came out this year (it’s great and I’m not biased) has…
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How to get writing by getting nasty
24 Oct 2011WRITING BY GETTING NASTY What links Tom Waits, suicide and the Klu Klux Klan? They’ve all come up in a…