21 Ways to Double Your Productivity, Improve Your Craft & Get Published!: A Field Guide for Writers
By Sara Connell
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21 Ways to Double Your Productivity, Improve Your Craft & Get Published! - Sara Connell
PRODUCTIVITY
Studies show that if you think about a goal, letting it ramble around your head like a rock in a rock tumbler, you have about a 20 percent chance of achieving it. If you write a goal on paper or type it into your computer or phone, that number jumps to 60 perfect. So right now, grab a pen or pencil and some paper, or your phone or your laptop—typing a goal counts as writing it down. We’ll talk about how to get that number to 100 percent later in this book, but first:
Write your Big Goal. What is the thing you’d love to experience more than anything in the area of writing? Is it publishing a novel, a children’s book, or a perfect, beautiful poem? A memoir, the story your grandmother told you on the front porch of her house when you were little? Is your Big Goal writing a bestseller or being interviewed on Charlie Rose or Stephen Colbert? Or is your Big Goal writing that book that people just like you are going to read and it’s going to change their lives? Or heal them? Or comfort them and make them feel—like all great writing does, in some way—that they are not alone?
Write your Big Goal now.
My Big Goal is
ACTION: Place your Big Goal somewhere where you will see it every day. Read your Big Goal out loud every day in the present tense. See it, feel it, taste it, hear it. Like it’s already happening.
To double our productivity as writers, we can approach our writing practice like a GPS. Without judgment, write down an estimate of how much you’ve been writing, on average, over the past month. This is your current location.
Haven’t been writing? No problem. You write down 0. Five minutes a day? Five hundred words? As dispassionately as possible, write down your current location.
My current location is
Your double productivity is your destination.
What does double-time look like for you? Is it to write for thirty minutes Monday–Friday this week? To write every day for seven days? Is it to lock yourself in a room or a cabin somewhere and not come out until you have that story written and polished and ready to send to Harper’s? Is it to write 500 words or 1,000 words or finish a chapter or a draft? Is it to submit a piece for publication? To publish a story on your website? Identify your double productivity goal.
My double productivity writing goal this week is
Now, make it visible. Think of those reading challenges you might have done in elementary school, or a fundraiser thermometer chart—the kind that bursts out from the top when your organization hits the $10,000 mark. Let the inner kid in you have some fun with markers or crayons and draw an image you’ll fill in each time you do a writing session. It’s amazing how much you’ll want to color in those empty circles or reach the top bar of that graph. If you want to get started writing and not making crafts, you can download a double productivity template