28How to Get There From HereUsing Task Blocks to Complete Your Book
Writers often start off in a blaze of fervor and then bog down. They lose track of the book or are easily distracted by life. So what to do? How do you get “there” from “here?” Task blocks are a writing action plan organized to focus not just on time but on time by task. They help facilitate a solid first draft, then revision and a final close-read edit.
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Some books forever change the way you think. Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) affected me that way. Especially Habit #2: Begin With the End in Mind. I began to set goals, fix them in my mind (I was way ahead of the visualization curve) and ...
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