If you haven’s seen Paul Silvia’s book How to Write a Lot, you should check it out. Silvia is a psychologist who studies emotion; he is also a productive scholar. His book is full of good advice on how to be more productive. To top it off, he has a great sense of humor. The book is a quick and useful read.
He writes:
“You must ruthlessly defend your writing time. Remember, you’re allocating time to write, not finding time to write. You decided that this is your time to write… Be forewarned that other people will not respect your commitment to your writing time… They’ll resent your inflexibility, call you rigid, and think that there’s some deeper reason why you won’t meet with them… How can you handle well-intentioned intruders? Just say no–that phrase might not keep you drug free, Nancy Reagan to the contrary, but it works for protecting your writing time.” (15-16)
[...] — professortime @ 8:21 AM I’ve mentioned Paul Silvia’s book in this blog before here. In the second chapter, he lists four specious barriers to writing–excuses that are really [...]
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