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Posted October 26, 2011
Subtitled "How to Write Your Book Around Your 9 to 5 Job," this booklet provides a fast read packed with easily grasped and implemented life-management tips. Most of us only dream of making writing our primary livelihood. For the majority of writers, our writing is something we're forced to squeeze into odd hours when real life isn't making its incessant demands. And, for most of us, this is a major challenge. How are we supposed to find enough time to write, edit, and market our work when the vast majority of our day is taken up with such necessities as earning our daily bread, eating our daily bread, and generally cleaning up after our daily bread?
As someone who's been there, done that, Bryan Cohen offers tips that apply as much to living a organized and fulfilled life in general as they do to living a productive writing life. He opened with a chapter sketching his own journey and growth from a writer who wasn't writing because he didn't think he had time, into an author who disciplined himself to become both efficient and prolific. He then divides the standard work day into morning, afternoon, and evening chapters and further breaks them down into schedules and tips. Some of his suggestions are the generic sort we've all heard (get up early, prioritize your tasks, etc.), some are geared toward helping writers reach their peak of creativity by maintaining a physically and emotionally healthy lifestyle, and some are suggestions for optimizing creativity while actually writing.
The author's friendly, self-deprecating style makes this a fun and encouraging read. You won't find anything earth shatteringly new in these pages, but you will find an accessible list of tips and tricks to keep you focused, fulfilled, and, most importantly, writing.
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Writer on the Side is a time management, positive thinking, long-term goal creating, personal effectiveness improving, success manual for the author wannabe trapped in a 9 to 5 (or some other exceptionally long time-frame) line of work. Just because you have to pay the bills does not mean that you can't find creative success and get things done outside of working hours. Take control of your life by learning tips and tricks to help you focus on writing productivity inside and outside of work.The book goes through your entire work day from beginning to end with sections on your morning, afternoon, evening and weekends so that you can mine whatever time ...