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Getting Your Writing To Flow, Part 2: Details

Posted on February 9, 2008 by loren

This is part two of a five-part series. In the previous article, I began a detailed examination of what makes writing flow. The most important thing to understand about flow is that it results from looking at your writing from … Continue reading →

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Getting Your Writing To Flow, Part 1

Posted on February 8, 2008 by loren

This is part one of a five-part series. “Flow” is an interesting concept. Among productivity gurus, “flow” most often refers to that elusive sweet spot within work where you’re getting things done with maximum efficiency and effectiveness. People used to … Continue reading →

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Writing As Personal Development

Posted on February 7, 2008 by loren

I have been thinking a lot recently about the intersection between writing and personal development. How does writing influence personal development, and what is there to gain by thinking about them together? What I have concluded so far is that … Continue reading →

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Achieve Your Writing Goals Tomorrow By Starting Today

Posted on February 6, 2008 by loren

Some days, you really feel productive: you are crossing things off your to-do list (or “next actions” list for those GTDers among us) left and right. There’s nothing you can’t do. Other days, it seems as though you spend all … Continue reading →

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Don’t Outline — Strategize! Part 2

Posted on February 5, 2008 by loren

In the previous article, I discussed recalibrating the way we as writers think about the planning stage of the writing process. I suggested that we think of it as strategizing, just as a general would plan the strategy for a … Continue reading →

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Don’t Outline — Strategize!

Posted on February 4, 2008 by loren

This is part one of a two-part series. It’s easy to love the early stages of writing in which you’re generating ideas.  The only rule of brainstorming is that all ideas are acceptable:  this means that you can feel legitimately … Continue reading →

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New Weekly Feature: Links To Love

Posted on February 3, 2008 by loren

Sunday is a great day to look back over the past week and plan for the week ahead. With that in mind, I am introducing a new weekly feature here at Writing Power: Links to Love. Each week, I will … Continue reading →

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Revise Those New Year’s Resolutions

Posted on February 2, 2008 by loren

Okay. It has been one month since many of us made New Year’s Resolutions, and it’s time for a reality check. How are they going? If you’re like most people, your answer is somewhere between “they’re going okay” and “ugh.” … Continue reading →

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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (Grammar)

Posted on February 1, 2008 by loren

America is an incredibly diverse culture. As diverse as we are, though, we seem to have one thing in common: none of us is immune to getting tripped up when it comes to whether we should say “good” or “well.” … Continue reading →

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Convene Your Mental Advisory Committee (MAC)

Posted on January 31, 2008 by loren

If drafting is about exploring options, revising is about making decisions. Decisions about what you want to say and how you want to communicate it. Decisions about where the heart of your writing is, what’s good, and what’s not. Decisions … Continue reading →

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