Thriving Under Pressure: How Deadlines Catapult Your Writing Success
Deadlines can be a powerful motivating force for you – if you embrace them with courage and tenacity. The closer a deadline is in time, the more power it builds inside you.
Deadlines can be a powerful motivating force for you – if you embrace them with courage and tenacity. The closer a deadline is in time, the more power it builds inside you.
Work will expand to fill the time allotted. Guaranteed. If you give yourself 12 months to write your first draft, it will take you a year to get it done. But you won’t work very hard for the first nine months because a deadline has no power
I love reading biographies of successful people for the lessons they teach me about the definition of success. It’s never about the money. Money is the byproduct of their relentless pursuit of excellence.
The success or failure of your journey down Publication Highway depends upon your answer to one question. “Do I value my published book enough to make the time to write it?”
When you begin each writing session with focus and intention, you will write more words in 15 minutes than others will write in an hour. My favorite method is to set a 15-minute timer for my writing session. I remove all distractions from my office.
I chose this quote, not because I agree with the first half, but because I know authors who feel precisely this way about deadlines. They hate them.
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