Work Hard, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life

★★★★★ "Thoughtful, instructive, profoundly useful-not to mention spit-out-your-drink funny." Timothy J. Hillegonds, author of The Distance Between

At the ripe age of forty, when Alexis Paige was finally diagnosed with ADHD-Inattentive Type, she rolled her eyes even before the doctor could finish spelling out her new marching orders: "The goal now," he said, "is to learn how to work smart, not hard."

"But that doesn't sound like any fun," she said. She was going to have to do this, too-ironic...