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January 16, 2015 5 Comments

The Writing Life – Episode 6: What’s the Next Action

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What's the Next Action - Writing Productivity Tip(If you’re a subscriber reading this in email, please click to the website to use the audio player.)

In this week’s four-ish minute podcast, you’ll learn how I use one tip from the GTD productivity approach to break big writing projects into manageable chunks, prioritizing and ordering them as I go.

 

Resources mentioned in the podcast:

  • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (story told in the podcast found on pages 18-19 in the Anchor Books, Doubleday, edition)
  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

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Filed Under: Podcast, writing Tagged With: David Allen, Getting Things Done, GTD Productivity, GTD Time Management System, productivity, time management for writers, time management productivity for writers

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  1. Laura Brown says

    January 16, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Today is the perfect morning for this to land in my in-box. I wrote down all the writing-life projects I have going on and started listing next actions. It’s a sketch of a list — some of them will need to be broken down into more steps — but it gives me a visual of what all is going on, a better grasp of priority (which is sometimes, but not solely, deadline-driven), and a gauge of how far each might be along the start-finish continuum.

    This seems similar to the practice of using index cards to take notes and organize a piece of writing. It seems like a lot of work up front, but it pays off. In both cases, part of the benefit is increased clarity.

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    • Ann Kroeker says

      January 16, 2015 at 2:43 pm

      Laura, I’m so glad this helps you with your own big project(s)!

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  2. Dolly@Soulstops says

    January 16, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    Ann, LOVED this…Thank you!

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    • Ann Kroeker says

      January 16, 2015 at 2:43 pm

      Dolly, I’m so glad! This one ran a little bit longer than the previous podcasts, so I hope listeners stick with me. 😉

      Reply

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    February 19, 2016 at 1:52 am

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