Stop and Give Me Twenty
Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, is "a co-parenting new father who writes at least a book per year, half-a-dozen columns a month, ten or more blog posts a day, plus assorted novellas and stories and speeches." In this piece for Locus Magazine, he explains how he stays productive in the "age of distraction":
- Short, regular work schedule
- Leave yourself a rough edge
- Don't research
- Don't be ceremonious
- Kill your word-processor
- Realtime communications tools are deadly
More detail in the article.
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Yet more advice from yet another writer . . . and what good advice he gives.
My verification word is "copolio." I think of Beavis & Butthead for some reason.
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