No matter how much you love creating stories, writing is a hard, introspective, and mind-consuming task. Everyone, from hobby writers to professionally published authors, struggles with time management, but it can feel particularly devastating when you realize your progress on your novel is at a standstill because you keep getting sidetracked. To help you identify and deal with some common time wasting habits, in this video I go over the worst ways I see writers spending their writing time and how to productively circumvent them.
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GREAT BOOKS ABOUT WRITING/PUBLISHING:
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer / amzn.to/3VE8dtt
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody / amzn.to/3Vyk2Bn
Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum / amzn.to/3Z4at03
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Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips / amzn.to/3CFz4Pt
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid / amzn.to/3CjFFi5
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Destructive Writer Habits that Are Holding You Back (and How to Overcome Them): • Destructive Writer Hab...
THE WORST WAYS TO SPEND YOUR WRITING TIME:
02:19 - Mocking up book covers
05:45 - Obsessively proofreading
08:39 - Doomscrolling #WritingCommunity posts
11:26 - Chasing shiny new story ideas
13:59 - Getting feedback from the wrong sources
ABOUT ME:
My name is Alyssa Matesic, and I’m a professional book editor with nearly a decade of book publishing and editorial experience. Throughout my career, I’ve held editorial roles across both sides of the publishing industry: Big Five publishing houses and literary agencies. The goal of this channel is to help writers throughout the book writing journey-whether you're working on your manuscript or you're looking for publishing advice.
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26 июн 2024