The Productive Writer: Strategies and Systems for Greater Productivity, Profit and Pleasure

Authors: Cohen, Sage
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: LAN005000, LAN002000, LAN005040
ISBN: 9781599632704, Related ISBNs: 1599632705, 9781599632704
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 208,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Take Control of Your Writing Life!

The creative process can be treacherous, even for the most experienced writer. Facing the blank page, staying inspired, sustaining momentum, managing competing priorities and coping with rejection are just a few of the challenges writers face regularly.

The Productive Writer is your guide to learning the systems, strategies and psychology that can help you transform possibilities into probabilities in your writing life. You'll sharpen your productivity pencil by learning how to:

   • Set clear goals—and achieve them
   • Create a writing schedule that really works
   • Discover what keeps you writing, revising, and submitting
   • Carve out writing time amidst the demands of work and family
   • Weed out habits and attitudes that are not serving you
   • Organize your thinking, workspace, papers and files
   • Increase your odds of publication and prosperity
   • Use social media to build an author platform
   • Get comfortable going public and promoting your writing
   • Create a sustainable writing rhythm and lifestyle
   • Accomplish what matters most to you

Create the writing life you most desire. The Productive Writer will help take you there.

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