Archive for July 27th, 2006

Getting Things Done

July 27, 2006
By Diana Burrell

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...
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Love Your Inner Critic

July 27, 2006
By Linda Formichelli

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...
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Worst pitch ever.

July 27, 2006
By Linda Formichelli

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...
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