Time Management Workshop (sponsored by Sojust) Location: GLAD, 30 Winter Street (Downtown Crossing), 8th floor Fee: $5 - $10 at door Preregistration encouraged: http://www.sojust.org/calendar/15463726/ This workshop begins with a discussion of how time should be viewed and valued; why one needs to manage it; and how successful people tend to ...

The work of becoming a prolific writer – someone who writes easily and quickly, and has fun while doing it - is the work of managing your moment-by-moment experience of your writing. Writing is one of those activities that looks easy, but really isn't. Besides the basic intellectual challenge, writing ...

...because it can be simultaneously intimate and public. For that reason, Facebook, Twitter, etc. - and even blogging - are not as easy to figure out, from a productivity standpoint, as they seem. Even email can be problematic because even the most personal email can be leaked. These are global, ...

Secrets of the Prolific: How to Boost Your Writing Productivity and Overcome Writers Block (online, for ALL writers) Click for more info Date: 8/29/2011 - 9/25/2011 Fee: $25 members / $30 nonmembers This course offers an easy, convenient and inexpensive learning experience. Twice a week I post a lesson (on ...

Some writers seem to have been born with an understanding of how to be productive. Here's the super-prolific Joyce Carol Oates in her 1978 Paris Review interview: “One must be pitiless about this matter of “mood.” In a sense, the writer will create the mood. If art is, as I ...

“This is all a giant procrastination and you must deal with it. You must.” - Words spoken to author and then-active alcoholic Caroline Knapp by her dying father, also an alcoholic (from Knapp’s book, Drinking: a Love Story) The link between perfectionism and addiction has been well documented, but I’ve ...

Great Expectations: Today's Babies are Likely to Live to 100, Doctors Predict "And people could be living not only longer, but better, according to doctors writing in the Lancet medical journal, who say that most evidence shows the under-85s are tending to remain more capable and mobile than before. They ...

So this month I turn 51. (I thought it was 50, but my helpful sisters reminded me...so I'm sending the newsletter I would have sent last year. And, YES, I do regularly forget how old I am. Now back to our regularly scheduled newsletter.) The wonderful thing is, I'm not ...