This week I’m re-reading Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. OK, I’m fibbing. I’m attempting to read it for the 11th time. Not that it’s boring or poorly written; there are paragraphs in there I want to etch on the inside of my eyelids! Everything he writes makes perfect sense. …
Jul 27, 2006 Advice, Cool products, Organization
We writers always talk about how to turn off our inner critics. In my opinion, completely turning off our inner critics is how we churn out a lot of crap.
True, some of us have inner critics that are so harsh that they make writing truly painful for us, and even keep us from getting anything …
As magazine writers, we often get pitches from PR people looking to snag some prime magazine space for their clients. And some of us freelance writers also do corporate/PR writing. So I loved this post by John Scalzi about the worst PR pitch he’s received as a blogger. The post is hilarious, and it may …
Jul 27, 2006 Public relations, Writers
