by Chris Smith | Feb 11, 2020
Remember when you loved your writing project? When your relationship was fresh and exciting. You’d bounce out of bed longing to spend time with it. Now you can’t bear to be in the same room. It’s become a slog. You’re not even sure it’s a project worth saving –...
by Chris Smith | Jan 15, 2020
In our workshops we’re often asked what we mean by ‘writing productivity’. I’m not surprised. ‘Productivity’ has some iffy connotations. It conjures up mental images of factory production lines or some dead-eyed corporate efficiency drives. No wonder writers baulk....
by Chris Smith | Dec 29, 2019
Some people think pleasure is peripheral to the writing process, something nice to have but not essential. We profoundly disagree. In our work with writers of all kinds – from professors and business gurus to novelists and creatives – we’ve found...
by Chris Smith | Nov 27, 2019
It’s easy to fantasise that when you clear the desks to write, you’ll end up blissfully writing for hours at a time. But having lots of time to write can be just as damaging to your productivity as having too little – sometimes more so. When you have all...
by Chris Smith | Nov 7, 2019
Some writers assume that procrastinating means engaging in frivolous activity – but that’s not true. Work can be procrastination, research can be procrastination, planning can be procrastination. It has many different forms and the less visible it is, the more...
