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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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Laura Brown says
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.
Ann Kroeker says
Laura, I’m so glad this helps you with your own big project(s)!
Dolly@Soulstops says
Ann, LOVED this…Thank you!
Ann Kroeker says
Dolly, I’m so glad! This one ran a little bit longer than the previous podcasts, so I hope listeners stick with me. 😉