Procrastinating Writers

How To Establish A Ritual Of Writing

July 20, 2011

This is a guest post by Maria Rainier of First In Education. If you would like to guest post for this blog, check out our guest post guidelines, then send your idea to: jennifer@procrastinatingwriters.com. When it comes to writing professionally, the need has never been so great for you to establish some sort of ritual [...]

How to Recognize Your Writing Resistance In Action

July 13, 2011

This is a guest post by Jody Calkins of Emery Road. If you would like to guest post for this blog, check out our guest post guidelines, then send your idea to: jennifer@procrastinatingwriters.com. Are you struggling with your writing goals? Do you dream of writing books, but you haven’t written one yet? It’s the resistance [...]

8 Tips To Help You Get Started Writing

July 6, 2011

This is a guest post by Alex B. Broadway Obviously I can’t tell you how to write. Nobody can do that. It’s like trying to tell someone how to breathe or blink their eyes. What I can tell you is how to make writing easier for you. If you think it takes talent to write, [...]

10 Ways to Avoid Distraction While You Write

June 22, 2011

This is a guest post by Mariana Ashley of OnlineColleges.net Jonathan Franzen, author of the bestselling novel Freedom, famously told TIME Magazine that he had actually disabled the Internet connection on his writing laptop by literally sticking a cable into the Ethernet port, sealing it with crazy glue, and then cutting off the cable so [...]

8 Reasons Why Unplugging Can Generate Better Ideas For Your Writing

June 15, 2011

This is a guest post by Krisca C. Te of AustralianCreditCards.com.au Some bloggers and writers work like a perpetual motion machine, turning out great quality articles one after another without ever losing steam. They are one hundred percent focused on their job so that every single piece comes out perfect in every way, but they [...]

How Much Of Good Writing Is In The Timing?

June 8, 2011

This is a guest post from Jamie Raintree of JamieRaintree.com. I’ve put off writing this blog post for about two weeks now. I came up with the perfect idea two weeks before that. But today felt like the right day to finally sit down and write it. Let me tell you a story. I have [...]

How Freewriting Can Help Writers Overcome Procrastination

June 1, 2011

This is a guest post by Melissa Donovan of Writing Forward. Procrastination among writers is a mystifying phenomenon. Aren’t we writers because we love to write, because we choose to write? So why are we constantly finding ways to avoid writing? We’d rather clean the oven, walk the dog or scrape the gutters than face [...]

Two Morning Meditations That Will Unleash Your Creativity

May 25, 2011

Creativity can sometimes be a difficult thing to maintain. The reason? We allow our daily lives consume us. All the drama and negativity and stress and worry (etc.) of life clouds our minds, which in turn keeps us feeling “blocked” creatively. Morning Pages can be a huge help—as I’ve mentioned before. But what if Morning [...]

Here’s A Guaranteed Way To Generate A Backlog Of Writing Ideas

May 4, 2011

Last week I was on vacation from work and so I had time to do a lot of reading. I was perusing the archives of Problogger.net when I came across an article about how to use a magazine to improve your blog. The article mentioned seven ways you can use a magazine to make your [...]

Track Your 3 Most Important Tasks For Writing Success

April 28, 2011

I came across this productivity tool through Leo Babauta‘s blog, Zen Habits. I’ve been using it for awhile now. It‘s an extremely effective way to prioritize your daily tasks and accomplish a lot more than you even realize. The 3 Most Important Tasks (MIT) are the 3 tasks you must accomplish that day—whatever they might [...]

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