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Focus
If you don't focus, you'll end up 52, in a career you don't like, still saying: "I've got this novel I want to write."

posted by Whim on June 30, 2004 at 5:51 AM | link to this | reply

Procrastinate is a fine art but it'll never make you any money.

posted by Jay9 on June 30, 2004 at 5:46 AM | link to this | reply

As Nike so eloquently put it "Just do it!" Forget everything else in life (except writing for money of course), but the dishes can wait, the ironing can wait, the ... you get the picture!

posted by Ca88andra on June 29, 2004 at 4:02 PM | link to this | reply

Try this . . .
Once per week (the same day every week), gather all your notes and enter them into an old-school journal or into a computer file.  Works well for me--I'm constantly jotting notes.

posted by UntoldOne on June 29, 2004 at 3:22 PM | link to this | reply

Love the words from that cartoon....
I have the same tendency to undertake too many things at a time and inevitably something suffers. Gee...when was the last time I submitted anything?...... Ponder 





posted by word.smith on June 29, 2004 at 1:02 PM | link to this | reply