Productivity

How to use Slima for writing & editing  This is a step by step guide to help you get started with Slima.   Your writing process starts by the fol...

120,000 words. A full year of work. All crammed into a single Word document. Last month a friend called me -- eight years deep into a novel, voice...

The Time Paradox of Creation and CritiqueA fact that holds across nearly every study of creative productivity: perfectionists have more unfinished ...

Roughly 70% of all people will experience imposter syndrome at some point in their lives. Among writers, the percentage is almost certainly higher ...

That folder on the desktop -- the one called "Novel Draft" or "Story Ideas" or maybe just "Writing" -- has been sitting there so long it might as w...

A 2019 study published in Creativity Research Journal found that 63% of professional writers report experiencing significant creative blocks at lea...

The Secret Weapon: Multiple Projects at OnceMost productivity advice says focus. One project. One goal. Eliminate distractions. Pour everything int...

When Writing Became Full-Time: The Birth of Routine"I'm not a sprinter. I'm a long-distance runner." Haruki Murakami said that decades ago, and he...

Most writing advice gets one thing catastrophically wrong: it assumes "better" and "more correct" are the same thing. They're not. Not even close....

"I know exactly what needs to happen next. I just can't make myself write it." -- Every novelist, at least once. Neil Gaiman once said the hard pa...

Fluent Doesn't Mean GoodMost people get this backwards. The panic around AI writing tools spread in exactly the wrong direction. Writers fear bein...

Three readers said the pacing in chapter seven was too slow. A fourth said the protagonist's decision in the climax made no sense. A fifth -- the o...

Most writers believe revision means reading through the manuscript once, catching typos, smoothing clunky sentences, and calling it done. The truth...

"I know there are problems in it. I just can't see them yet. But when I come back, those problems will be clear -- like finding a body in an otherw...

Three months of preparation, and the blank document is still blank. The protagonist has a name, a backstory, a wound that drives everything. The w...

His Desk, His DungeonThree months into writing your novel, you've got forty pages. Good pages, even. Then life gets loud -- a deadline at work, a f...