Write More! Time and Distraction Management for Busy Writers

How to Be a More Productive Writer—Fulfill Your Writing Goals & Finish Those Big Writing Projects You Keep Talking About

Created by: Dave Fox
Travel Author / Writing and Personal Development Coach

What Will I Learn?

• Identify the ways they procrastinate, and fix them so they get more written.
• Determine their best times of day and places for writing (which aren't always what we think they are!)
• Create more writing time in their schedules so they finish the projects they've been talking about doing for a long time.
• Communicate effectively (and happily!) with friends and family to help minimize interruptions when they are trying to write.
• Understand how electronic distractions such as e-mail, social media, telephones, and a vast array of other electronic distractions disrupt our productivity – often, more than we realize – and discover how to tame those distractions.
• Find time to write when traveling, even if their travel partner isn't a writer. (A special lesson for aspiring travel writers.)
• Learn how to use effective and fun reward and accountability systems so they stay on task and keep writing.
• Begin their days (or their writing times) with a blast of their most effective energy so they hit the ground running every time they start to write.
• Unlearn a common bad habit in the editing process that stops writers from being productive.
• Get more written!

Requirements

• This is the second in Dave Fox's series of "Writers' Therapy" courses. It is not, however, a "sequil" to the first course in this series. You do NOT have to have completed course number one to take this one. You can do them in any order, based on your needs.
• Course number one in this series teaches methods and attitudes to help overcome writers overcome writer's block and perfectionism. This course focuses on time management and procrastination. It teaches proven techniques to minimize the vast array of distractions that can stifle or interrupt our writing.
• This course is designed for writers of all skill levels, from beginners to professionals.
• Course number one in this series teaches methods and attitudes to help overcome writers overcome writer's block and perfectionism. This course focuses on time management and procrastination. It teaches proven techniques to minimize the vast array of distractions that can stifle or interrupt our writing.
• The ultimate goal for this course (and all courses in this series) is to help writers be more productive, and to minimize the angst so many people face with their writing.
• There are two more courses planned for this series. Course number three will look at the psychology of editing and being edited. Course number four will explore the psychology of publishing – everything from pitching stories to editors (and "pitcher's block," which is a bigger problem than writer's block for many aspiring writers), as well as the insecurities around critiques and reviews that many writers struggle with. (Because, hey, we're human! It's scary to throw our words out into the world – but we need to do that! When you get write down to it, stories are what define our lives!

Target audience

• Writers and aspiring writers who aren't writing as much as they wish they could be.
• Writers (and other creative people) who struggle to find time for their writing due to time-management and distraction issues.