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My Secret to Writing Productivity: Procrastination
Try to write something important but difficult and regularly take a break to write something else
Play to your strengths, not your weaknesses. This is a common bit of self-improvement wisdom I’ve heard many times over the years. So I’ve started putting it into practice in my writing.
I’m excellent at procrastination.
People who write a story in under an hour amaze me. I’m in awe of writers who hold down a full-time day job and still churn out a couple of stories a day. My writing takes much longer than that what with needing to factor in the necessary time for gazing out the window.
With effort, I can pull off about one published story a day. Even when I enter into that blessed flow state and the words fly from my fingertips, it takes me at least a couple of hours to get from a blank page to ready to submit.
Except for yesterday, when I managed to get two stories written, starting from nothing all the way to submitting. As a bonus, I also knocked out an outline.
I can hardly call myself an internet writer if I don’t have the hubris to draw firm conclusions from one incident, so I’m going to share my hard-earned wisdom of what yesterday taught me about productivity.
