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@faith_blum This is a great article! Relating to the schedule-making that you wrote about, I tried a few weeks ago to write out and follow a personalized schedule that had everything I needed in one day on it, with some free time– to the minute. Needless to say, it didn’t work (I need a watch), but it was an interesting exercise in getting things done, and I will say that a schedule is one of the things that helps me the most.

Another tip along those same lines that I have found helpful is to put extra “appointments” into your normal schedule. For example, instead of trying to stay focused and write for an hour and a half, I’ll decide and work into my schedule ahead of time that I’ll have a “meeting” with my writing at a nearby coffee shop that day. It gets me out of the house, and since the sole purpose of leaving is to write, I am much more inclined to do so.