Galactic Writer » Evernote http://galacticwriter.com A blog about creative writing Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:14:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 © thom.allen@gmail.com () thom.allen@gmail.com() My journey through writing thom.allen@gmail.com No no http://galacticwriter.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Galactic Writer http://galacticwriter.com 144 144 The Challenge Of Writing A Book http://galacticwriter.com/the-challenge-of-writing-a-book/ http://galacticwriter.com/the-challenge-of-writing-a-book/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:37:24 +0000 thom http://galacticwriter.com/the-challenge-of-writing-a-book/

As all of you know, there are a large number of challenges when it comes to writing a book. There are so many I’m not even going to list them.

A month or so ago, my friend Jason Alba challenged us to write our book this year. Doesn’t matter the subject, only to get started writing. He has a lot of great points. I’m up to the challenge of writing my book, because I have several that I’m working on. And that’s the problem. Completing one project before starting another.

I guess you could say I have multi-tasking disease. I like to have more than one fire burning at a time. Generally this isn’t a problem, but I can definitely tell when I have too many fires, I feel the heat. This is also true for my writing. Which is a problem, because I start on projects, then never finish them, or it takes me a long time to find me way back.

I’ve come up with a writing plan, sort of a To-Do list, or Next Action plan, and I keep track of these projects in Evernote. I want my list of unfinished projects to be staring at me all the time. This isn’t the same as writing something and letting it simmer for a while. This is starting and then moving on before finishing.

How do you manage your writing projects?

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