{"id":92,"date":"2017-07-13T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/?p=92"},"modified":"2017-07-12T19:04:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T23:04:34","slug":"002-writing-productively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/productivitycast.net\/002-writing-productively\/","title":{"rendered":"002 On Writing Productively &#8211; ProductivityCast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"002 On Writing Productively &amp;#8211; ProductivityCast\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2017-07-13T09:00:50-04:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT28M33S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Writing productively is as much a skill as it is an art. And, you probably find yourself writing more today than you might think. 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And, you probably find yourself writing more today than you might think. When it comes to being productive, your ability to write well is of paramount importance. In this episode, Ray and Augusto discuss how they approach and the tools they use for writing productively, and hopefully it gives you some perspective on your writing and productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! <a href=\"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/contact\/\">Ask us your questions, and give us feedback<\/a>! And, thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to discuss this episode, please <a href=\"#reply-title\">click here to leave a comment<\/a> down below.<\/p>\n<h2>In this Cast &#8211; On Writing Productively<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/about\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ray Sidney-Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/about\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Augusto Pinaud<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Show Notes &#8211; On Writing Productively<\/h2>\n<p>Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Annie_Proulx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Annie Proulx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dickens.ucsc.edu\/resources\/faq\/by-the-word.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Was Charles Dickens paid by the word?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Docs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/docs\/answer\/4492226?hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Docs Speech to text functionality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/drive\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Drive<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re wanting to sign-up for G Suite to securely use Google apps for your business, sign up for a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/w3cinc.com\/gsuite\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free trial here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsidneysmith.com\/evernote\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evernote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.literatureandlatte.com\/scrivener.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scrivener<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarly.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grammarly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/icab-mobile-web-browser\/id308111628?mt=8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iCab mobile browser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/pages\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple Pages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacejock.com\/yWriter5.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yWriter 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomeranggmail.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boomerang Gmail<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomeranggmail.com\/respondable\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respondable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zotero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/x.co\/getgtd\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting Things Done<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Allen\/e\/B001ILIG4C\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?qid=1499879068&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=ll2&amp;tag=prodbooks-20&amp;linkId=dece36e1cf3204c55092677ec0071ff5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Allen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impostor_syndrome\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imposter Syndrome<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/brene_brown\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brene Brown TED Talks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pareto_principle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pareto Principle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-Life\/dp\/0385480016\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1499876934&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Bird+by+Bird&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=prodbooks-20&amp;linkId=da5a0379bc1f4a87dc89f7d444c44e56\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bird by Bird<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anne-Lamott\/e\/B0034PEWO8\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?qid=1499876934&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=ll2&amp;tag=prodbooks-20&amp;linkId=296e63e8cef77130fac10a487788a758\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anne Lamott<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Hass\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Hass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Raw Text Transcript &#8211; On Writing Productively<\/h2>\n<p>0:00:00.000,0:00:04.110<br \/>\nare you ready to manage your work and<br \/>\npersonal world better to live a more<\/p>\n<p>0:00:04.110,0:00:07.109<br \/>\nfulfilling productive life then you&#8217;ve<br \/>\ncome to the right place<\/p>\n<p>0:00:07.109,0:00:12.570<br \/>\nwelcome to productivity cast the weekly<br \/>\nshow about all things productivity here<\/p>\n<p>0:00:12.570,0:00:16.770<br \/>\nare your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and<br \/>\nAugusto Pinaud<\/p>\n<p>0:00:16.770,0:00:21.420<br \/>\nwelcome productivity cast listeners to<br \/>\nour second episode to find the links to<\/p>\n<p>0:00:21.420,0:00:25.140<br \/>\nall the resources we discussed a raw<br \/>\ntranscript if you want to find the time<\/p>\n<p>0:00:25.140,0:00:28.710<br \/>\nsignature of where we discussed<br \/>\nsomething specific or listen back to<\/p>\n<p>0:00:28.710,0:00:33.390<br \/>\nthis episode from your desktop please<br \/>\nvisit productivity cast net forward<\/p>\n<p>0:00:33.390,0:00:38.040<br \/>\nslash 0:02 everything you need about<br \/>\nthis episode is available at<\/p>\n<p>0:00:38.040,0:00:42.510<br \/>\nproductivity cast net forward slash zero<br \/>\nzero two and with that in this episode<\/p>\n<p>0:00:42.510,0:00:48.360<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re going to be discussing writing and<br \/>\nproductivity enjoy I just want to get<\/p>\n<p>0:00:48.360,0:00:52.860<br \/>\nright into it because this is a really<br \/>\nimportant topic I think to everyone who<\/p>\n<p>0:00:52.860,0:00:57.180<br \/>\nis a Productivity enthusiast and really<br \/>\nwants to understand how to be more<\/p>\n<p>0:00:57.180,0:01:00.660<br \/>\nproductive in their daily lives<br \/>\nI mean from everything we do in our work<\/p>\n<p>0:01:00.660,0:01:05.309<br \/>\ndays there there is some you know form<br \/>\nof writing and we can do it more<\/p>\n<p>0:01:05.309,0:01:09.570<br \/>\neffectively you know more efficiently<br \/>\nand I think that there are many things<\/p>\n<p>0:01:09.570,0:01:13.110<br \/>\nwe should think about when it comes to<br \/>\nwriting whether it be addressing an<\/p>\n<p>0:01:13.110,0:01:17.610<br \/>\nemail appropriately using email<br \/>\nappropriately being able to write that<\/p>\n<p>0:01:17.610,0:01:23.040<br \/>\nnext report being able to write you know<br \/>\neven just filling out forms and even<\/p>\n<p>0:01:23.040,0:01:26.700<br \/>\nwriting longer materials whether that be<br \/>\nblog posts which a lot of us have to do<\/p>\n<p>0:01:26.700,0:01:30.540<br \/>\nfor work now<br \/>\nand because of social media and then you<\/p>\n<p>0:01:30.540,0:01:33.930<br \/>\nknow if you&#8217;re if you&#8217;re an author or<br \/>\nsome other kind of creative professional<\/p>\n<p>0:01:33.930,0:01:38.280<br \/>\nand you&#8217;re looking to you know write<br \/>\nlonger materials it&#8217;s really important<\/p>\n<p>0:01:38.280,0:01:42.899<br \/>\nfor you to be able to do this in the<br \/>\nmost productive manner and so I just<\/p>\n<p>0:01:42.899,0:01:47.850<br \/>\nwanted to kick it in with some sort of<br \/>\ngeneral principles for being able to to<\/p>\n<p>0:01:47.850,0:01:53.520<br \/>\nwrite productively and so so let&#8217;s just<br \/>\nstart off with basically the the what I<\/p>\n<p>0:01:53.520,0:01:57.360<br \/>\nbelieve is the initial and augusto you<br \/>\ncan push back if you if you think I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:01:57.360,0:02:02.009<br \/>\noff off point here but I really believe<br \/>\nthat reading is fundamental right it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:02:02.009,0:02:06.630<br \/>\nreally important for us to remember that<br \/>\nin order to be good writers we have to<\/p>\n<p>0:02:06.630,0:02:11.410<br \/>\nbe good readers because if you don&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow what what and how to read well then<\/p>\n<p>0:02:11.410,0:02:15.490<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re not going to have the experience<br \/>\nwith the written word that&#8217;s necessary<\/p>\n<p>0:02:15.490,0:02:20.920<br \/>\nfor you to be able to put words down on<br \/>\npaper or on screen that are really going<\/p>\n<p>0:02:20.920,0:02:25.750<br \/>\nto be effective if you don&#8217;t read you<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t write okay and in a way if you<\/p>\n<p>0:02:25.750,0:02:32.800<br \/>\nthink on a weight training K what what a<br \/>\nway trainer do is a series of exercises<\/p>\n<p>0:02:32.800,0:02:37.900<br \/>\nso he can&#8217;t own his muscles okay and he<br \/>\ndid that daily and he do that constantly<\/p>\n<p>0:02:37.900,0:02:42.820<br \/>\nI mean writing is exactly the same thing<br \/>\nyou need to read constantly and all the<\/p>\n<p>0:02:42.820,0:02:47.530<br \/>\ntime and different things because people<br \/>\nthink oh well I&#8217;m going to be I want to<\/p>\n<p>0:02:47.530,0:02:51.580<br \/>\nwrite or I&#8217;m going to be writing about<br \/>\nbusiness so I don&#8217;t need I&#8217;m not in the<\/p>\n<p>0:02:51.580,0:02:56.170<br \/>\nbusiness of reading fiction and I<br \/>\ncompletely disagree I think you need to<\/p>\n<p>0:02:56.170,0:03:02.290<br \/>\nset a schedule of read everything from<br \/>\nfiction to business to self-improvement<\/p>\n<p>0:03:02.290,0:03:08.980<br \/>\nto productivity to even religion in the<br \/>\nsense that it will show you how<\/p>\n<p>0:03:08.980,0:03:15.400<br \/>\ndifferent people use different ways to<br \/>\nexpress the same things and I&#8217;m not<\/p>\n<p>0:03:15.400,0:03:21.580<br \/>\nadvocating copy any of those styles but<br \/>\nit will allow you to understand and to<\/p>\n<p>0:03:21.580,0:03:28.630<br \/>\nidentify your own style no and if you<br \/>\ncan spend the time to read and to do<\/p>\n<p>0:03:28.630,0:03:32.440<br \/>\nthat training at the end of the day<br \/>\nhow&#8217;d you expect you&#8217;re going to be<\/p>\n<p>0:03:32.440,0:03:36.280<br \/>\nready for the moment that you are going<br \/>\nto be trying to compete that is at the<\/p>\n<p>0:03:36.280,0:03:40.750<br \/>\nmoment you&#8217;re going to be trying not to<br \/>\nwrite that text over the years have<\/p>\n<p>0:03:40.750,0:03:45.040<br \/>\npeople coming to me and say well how how<br \/>\ncan you write this much and say well<\/p>\n<p>0:03:45.040,0:03:48.820<br \/>\nit&#8217;s simple just what every day okay<br \/>\njust sit and write every day could you<\/p>\n<p>0:03:48.820,0:03:54.280<br \/>\nread every day and if you can only have<br \/>\na 10 minute to read every day then you<\/p>\n<p>0:03:54.280,0:03:58.330<br \/>\nonly have 5 minutes to write every day<br \/>\nbecause a relationship I think need to<\/p>\n<p>0:03:58.330,0:04:02.739<br \/>\nbe two to one twice the time of reading<br \/>\nfor the time you want to write yeah I<\/p>\n<p>0:04:02.739,0:04:08.470<br \/>\nhave to say I am guilty I have to have<br \/>\nto make the productivity confession that<\/p>\n<p>0:04:08.470,0:04:15.820<br \/>\nI have always leaned into nonfiction<br \/>\nreading and it&#8217;s it&#8217;s so powerful to be<\/p>\n<p>0:04:15.820,0:04:22.700<br \/>\nable to utilize fiction based writing<br \/>\ntechniques when you are writing non<\/p>\n<p>0:04:22.700,0:04:26.419<br \/>\nyou know and I primarily write<br \/>\nnonfiction and you know I I have to say<\/p>\n<p>0:04:26.419,0:04:30.350<br \/>\nyou know you&#8217;re absolutely right Augusto<br \/>\nit&#8217;s so important it&#8217;s almost imperative<\/p>\n<p>0:04:30.350,0:04:35.450<br \/>\nthat you read both sides and different<br \/>\ngenres you know from everything from<\/p>\n<p>0:04:35.450,0:04:40.760<br \/>\nRumi to Shakespeare to to books that<br \/>\nhave been translated from other<\/p>\n<p>0:04:40.760,0:04:46.010<br \/>\nlanguages it really does give you a<br \/>\nsense of how to communicate in the most<\/p>\n<p>0:04:46.010,0:04:50.990<br \/>\nbroad way with specificity you know and<br \/>\nI mean Broadway to the broadest audience<\/p>\n<p>0:04:50.990,0:04:56.810<br \/>\nand with specificity meaning writing<br \/>\nefficiently basically writing so that<\/p>\n<p>0:04:56.810,0:05:02.720<br \/>\nevery word counts and and I think you<br \/>\nknow some people sort of hear you know<\/p>\n<p>0:05:02.720,0:05:07.430<br \/>\nsort of the e Annie Proulx sort of<br \/>\nwriting with with such specificity that<\/p>\n<p>0:05:07.430,0:05:12.650<br \/>\nyou know you write very very precisely<br \/>\nand therefore not as many words I don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:05:12.650,0:05:17.180<br \/>\nnecessarily mean that but I do mean that<br \/>\nyou should you should make most words<\/p>\n<p>0:05:17.180,0:05:21.260<br \/>\ncount right I mean you know you&#8217;re not<br \/>\nCharles Dickens you&#8217;re not being paid by<\/p>\n<p>0:05:21.260,0:05:26.419<br \/>\nthe word I presume you&#8217;re not being paid<br \/>\nby the word if you are then I&#8217;ll<\/p>\n<p>0:05:26.419,0:05:31.070<br \/>\ncontinue continue Dickens is you know a<br \/>\nperspective there but if you&#8217;re not<\/p>\n<p>0:05:31.070,0:05:33.830<br \/>\ngetting paid by the word<br \/>\nyou know you should still you should<\/p>\n<p>0:05:33.830,0:05:37.789<br \/>\nstill make sure that your that your<br \/>\nwords count and and so many times I<\/p>\n<p>0:05:37.789,0:05:43.130<br \/>\nreceive an email from somebody and you<br \/>\nknow it&#8217;s just it&#8217;s just so wordy and<\/p>\n<p>0:05:43.130,0:05:48.169<br \/>\nand I I not again I&#8217;ll probably second<br \/>\nconfession of the of the podcast this<\/p>\n<p>0:05:48.169,0:05:52.100<br \/>\nweek is that I I happen to be a wordy<br \/>\nwriter you know I tend to write multiple<\/p>\n<p>0:05:52.100,0:05:56.210<br \/>\nparagraph emails and we&#8217;ll talk about<br \/>\nthis when we get to sort of tools we can<\/p>\n<p>0:05:56.210,0:06:01.190<br \/>\nuse you know I&#8217;ve used the tool recently<br \/>\nto help me sort of cut down on that<\/p>\n<p>0:06:01.190,0:06:05.330<br \/>\nbecause I did find myself writing you<br \/>\nknow four or five six seven paragraphs<\/p>\n<p>0:06:05.330,0:06:10.930<br \/>\nof email and then recognizing that while<br \/>\nthose emails were well-written they were<\/p>\n<p>0:06:10.930,0:06:15.110<br \/>\nunnecessary and they&#8217;re probably going<br \/>\nto compete with my ability to go ahead<\/p>\n<p>0:06:15.110,0:06:19.910<br \/>\nand get a response so always good to<br \/>\nknow that that you should be reading and<\/p>\n<p>0:06:19.910,0:06:22.669<br \/>\nyou should also be reading your own<br \/>\nwriting and I think that&#8217;s really<\/p>\n<p>0:06:22.669,0:06:27.229<br \/>\nimportant that&#8217;s a that&#8217;s a mechanism<br \/>\nfor you to be able to see a final<\/p>\n<p>0:06:27.229,0:06:31.820<br \/>\nproduct from a year ago to see where you<br \/>\nwere to where you are now<\/p>\n<p>0:06:31.820,0:06:35.060<br \/>\nand I think it&#8217;s really helpful to see<br \/>\nhow how you grow and progress as a<\/p>\n<p>0:06:35.060,0:06:38.900<br \/>\nwriter two things in what you said I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t one now it&#8217;s good to know that my<\/p>\n<p>0:06:38.900,0:06:42.740<br \/>\nemails are short pasted on your standard<br \/>\nand that I have always by the way can<\/p>\n<p>0:06:42.740,0:06:46.610<br \/>\nsee the animals are incredibly long but<br \/>\nbecause mine tend to be a couple of<\/p>\n<p>0:06:46.610,0:06:50.870<br \/>\nparagraphs sometimes three but seven<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s I agree it&#8217;s long we put it but<\/p>\n<p>0:06:50.870,0:06:56.360<br \/>\nyou need to get to be able to learn how<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not saying to use it every time but<\/p>\n<p>0:06:56.360,0:07:00.560<br \/>\nyou need to be able to write a two liner<br \/>\nwhen you need it to be extremely<\/p>\n<p>0:07:00.560,0:07:05.420<br \/>\neffective and the only way you&#8217;re going<br \/>\nto do that is if you read and you<\/p>\n<p>0:07:05.420,0:07:08.930<br \/>\npractice and you can really have the<br \/>\ntechnique or under your arms otherwise<\/p>\n<p>0:07:08.930,0:07:12.410<br \/>\nthe moment you need to send that email<br \/>\nwhere you&#8217;re extremely frustrated<\/p>\n<p>0:07:12.410,0:07:16.790<br \/>\nextremely matter is extremely important<br \/>\nand you need it to be a two line or an<\/p>\n<p>0:07:16.790,0:07:20.210<br \/>\neffect if you&#8217;ve never done it you can&#8217;t<br \/>\nsimple as that the other thing for<\/p>\n<p>0:07:20.210,0:07:26.500<br \/>\npeople is there&#8217;s two things that<br \/>\nespecially you know until you find that<\/p>\n<p>0:07:26.500,0:07:32.240<br \/>\nunperfect that voice is pretty if you<br \/>\nare starting to ride on a new topic or<\/p>\n<p>0:07:32.240,0:07:35.930<br \/>\nyou are starting to write I change you<br \/>\nknow something different or a new<\/p>\n<p>0:07:35.930,0:07:42.200<br \/>\ngeneral you start reading your stuff<br \/>\nloud ok talk none don&#8217;t read on your<\/p>\n<p>0:07:42.200,0:07:44.810<br \/>\nmind<br \/>\nuse your voice there is two reasons for<\/p>\n<p>0:07:44.810,0:07:49.040<br \/>\nthat one that pays the reading that you<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re just reading on your mind you can<\/p>\n<p>0:07:49.040,0:07:54.950<br \/>\ngo much faster and second allows you to<br \/>\nreally identify from a different sense<\/p>\n<p>0:07:54.950,0:07:59.450<br \/>\nhow the structure of the sentence work<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s trick number one and trick number<\/p>\n<p>0:07:59.450,0:08:04.760<br \/>\ntwo is while you are doing that record<br \/>\nyourself because if you miss pissed off<\/p>\n<p>0:08:04.760,0:08:09.260<br \/>\non the first reading you will catch<br \/>\nyourself on the second and it your mind<\/p>\n<p>0:08:09.260,0:08:14.150<br \/>\nwill feel on the blanks if I write a<br \/>\nsentence that says the house read my<\/p>\n<p>0:08:14.150,0:08:19.370<br \/>\nmind will fill in the blank an adverb<br \/>\nand my mind will read the house is read<\/p>\n<p>0:08:19.370,0:08:25.130<br \/>\nif you read that with your voice loudly<br \/>\nyou will when you read the house read<\/p>\n<p>0:08:25.130,0:08:29.330<br \/>\nyou will say hey let me read that again<br \/>\nthe house read oh I missed a verb and a<\/p>\n<p>0:08:29.330,0:08:34.370<br \/>\nlot of times the reason that&#8217;s missed is<br \/>\nbecause you are trying to go faster than<\/p>\n<p>0:08:34.370,0:08:40.040<br \/>\nwhat the process here and write the<br \/>\nfirst draft without any regard but when<\/p>\n<p>0:08:40.040,0:08:45.050<br \/>\nyou are going to edit you need to slow<br \/>\ndown and be much more<\/p>\n<p>0:08:45.050,0:08:50.209<br \/>\npurposeful on what you are doing with it<br \/>\nwhich we detect we get to the next point<\/p>\n<p>0:08:50.209,0:08:57.019<br \/>\nwhich is the the power of planning I<br \/>\nhave been and and I think you gusto you<\/p>\n<p>0:08:57.019,0:09:00.200<br \/>\nknow probably are on the same page but<br \/>\nagain you can disagree with me here you<\/p>\n<p>0:09:00.200,0:09:04.550<br \/>\nknow I really believe in the power of<br \/>\nplanning when it comes to writing a<\/p>\n<p>0:09:04.550,0:09:11.540<br \/>\nwell-planned written piece becomes a<br \/>\nwell-written piece and you know so many<\/p>\n<p>0:09:11.540,0:09:16.550<br \/>\ntimes I see people sit down and they<br \/>\nwrite from start to finish and they&#8217;re<\/p>\n<p>0:09:16.550,0:09:21.410<br \/>\nlike wow this is great I had such an<br \/>\namazing writing session and then they<\/p>\n<p>0:09:21.410,0:09:26.060<br \/>\nsit down other times and they can&#8217;t<br \/>\nwrite and they have trouble doing so and<\/p>\n<p>0:09:26.060,0:09:30.350<br \/>\nI just don&#8217;t even understand you know<br \/>\nwhy you would put yourself through that<\/p>\n<p>0:09:30.350,0:09:36.620<br \/>\ntorture of having this on you know<br \/>\nwriting off writing sort of feeling when<\/p>\n<p>0:09:36.620,0:09:41.720<br \/>\nif you had an outline you would be able<br \/>\nto write section by section and<\/p>\n<p>0:09:41.720,0:09:46.190<br \/>\ntherefore have a successful writing<br \/>\nsession every time and so I think that<\/p>\n<p>0:09:46.190,0:09:50.029<br \/>\neverything should be outlined you know I<br \/>\nwould actually like it if every email<\/p>\n<p>0:09:50.029,0:09:56.180<br \/>\nhad headings you know I you know it&#8217;s<br \/>\nlike one of those things where for a<\/p>\n<p>0:09:56.180,0:10:00.470<br \/>\ntime actually I was actually sending<br \/>\nemails and if it was a multiple-point<\/p>\n<p>0:10:00.470,0:10:06.589<br \/>\nemail I would put you know bolded<br \/>\nheadings for what each item was so that<\/p>\n<p>0:10:06.589,0:10:11.120<br \/>\npeople could jump to their particular<br \/>\nyou know issue and just read that<\/p>\n<p>0:10:11.120,0:10:17.060<br \/>\nsection so anyway the point my point is<br \/>\nis that when you when you really decide<\/p>\n<p>0:10:17.060,0:10:22.399<br \/>\nto start writing you really should start<br \/>\nto decide to outline well first if<\/p>\n<p>0:10:22.399,0:10:26.510<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re gonna write well and write<br \/>\nproductively outlining is well worth the<\/p>\n<p>0:10:26.510,0:10:32.390<br \/>\ntime when I do consult in and I&#8217;m<br \/>\ntalking to companies and we&#8217;re talking<\/p>\n<p>0:10:32.390,0:10:37.100<br \/>\nabout their problems they are having you<br \/>\nknow with their marketing and sales and<\/p>\n<p>0:10:37.100,0:10:41.600<br \/>\non how they&#8217;re not talking to each other<br \/>\nand there is a lot of what I do and how<\/p>\n<p>0:10:41.600,0:10:47.839<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to help them the first thing<br \/>\nis that outline on how where we are we<\/p>\n<p>0:10:47.839,0:10:53.240<br \/>\nidentify the problems identify the<br \/>\npossible causes and before we even go to<\/p>\n<p>0:10:53.240,0:10:58.170<br \/>\nwhere we want to go because otherwise<br \/>\nwhat you&#8217;re giving people<\/p>\n<p>0:10:58.170,0:11:03.959<br \/>\notherwise you can get distracted and<br \/>\npull if you think on on a meeting um I<\/p>\n<p>0:11:03.959,0:11:08.399<br \/>\nlike to have an agenda when I sit on a<br \/>\nmeeting why because it works in the same<\/p>\n<p>0:11:08.399,0:11:12.450<br \/>\nway of the outline it means we cannot<br \/>\ndiscuss other topics of course we can<\/p>\n<p>0:11:12.450,0:11:17.220<br \/>\nbut at least we are going to make sure<br \/>\nthat whatever topics are on the original<\/p>\n<p>0:11:17.220,0:11:20.910<br \/>\nlist are going to be taught and we are<br \/>\ngoing to be able to move forward with<\/p>\n<p>0:11:20.910,0:11:25.620<br \/>\nthem you know if we don&#8217;t plot out how<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re going to get to our goal we&#8217;re not<\/p>\n<p>0:11:25.620,0:11:29.519<br \/>\ngoing to get to our goal and so if you<br \/>\nreally want to write productively you<\/p>\n<p>0:11:29.519,0:11:32.910<br \/>\nneed to know what that you know as I<br \/>\nsaid it&#8217;s sort of like you know<\/p>\n<p>0:11:32.910,0:11:38.730<br \/>\ndirections to you know to a location you<br \/>\nknow driving directions you know you you<\/p>\n<p>0:11:38.730,0:11:43.410<br \/>\nneed to look at a map and you see<br \/>\nturn-by-turn instructions you know or<\/p>\n<p>0:11:43.410,0:11:47.250<br \/>\nwritten turn-by-turn instructions but<br \/>\nyou know in essence the outline is that<\/p>\n<p>0:11:47.250,0:11:50.490<br \/>\nit&#8217;s your ability to do that and yeah<br \/>\nyou could totally deviate off your<\/p>\n<p>0:11:50.490,0:11:54.209<br \/>\ncourse and then come back on to it to<br \/>\nget back to where you need to go while<\/p>\n<p>0:11:54.209,0:11:58.440<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re on that topic we that&#8217;s sort of a<br \/>\ngood segue into the tools we can use to<\/p>\n<p>0:11:58.440,0:12:02.760<br \/>\nwrite more productively and I&#8217;ll just<br \/>\nstart off with that I do a lot of<\/p>\n<p>0:12:02.760,0:12:06.779<br \/>\nwriting in Google Docs within the Google<br \/>\nDrive suite<\/p>\n<p>0:12:06.779,0:12:12.180<br \/>\nI do a lot of outlining obviously in in<br \/>\nthat tool but I also mind map a lot 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factor of the space<\/p>\n<p>0:12:53.699,0:12:59.130<br \/>\notherwise I may be doodle for hours<br \/>\ninstead of thinking about the that&#8217;s not<\/p>\n<p>0:12:59.130,0:13:05.459<br \/>\noutline but but for the writing per se I<br \/>\nuse an app that I&#8217;ve been using for<\/p>\n<p>0:13:05.459,0:13:09.860<br \/>\nyears called Scrivener I have a<br \/>\nlove-hate relationship with Scrivener<\/p>\n<p>0:13:09.860,0:13:14.730<br \/>\nmostly laughs but<br \/>\nsometimes hate and finally after many<\/p>\n<p>0:13:14.730,0:13:20.600<br \/>\nmany many many years they move to the<br \/>\niPad and I can now edit into the<\/p>\n<p>0:13:20.600,0:13:26.040<br \/>\nScrivener format in the iPad they came<br \/>\nsome years ago with an ability to export<\/p>\n<p>0:13:26.040,0:13:34.170<br \/>\non RTF so so I&#8217;ve been doing that for at<br \/>\nleast 2013 maybe 12 I&#8217;ve been able to<\/p>\n<p>0:13:34.170,0:13:39.240<br \/>\nwork on my iPad with the Scrivener files<br \/>\nbut I used to be forced to go to the Mac<\/p>\n<p>0:13:39.240,0:13:44.160<br \/>\nand once in a while backup and compile<br \/>\nand all that and now I can do all that<\/p>\n<p>0:13:44.160,0:13:48.690<br \/>\nin the iPad that for me is key since you<br \/>\nknow that&#8217;s my main working machine I<\/p>\n<p>0:13:48.690,0:13:55.050<br \/>\nalso use an of an application called<br \/>\ngrammarly who we also have a love-hate<\/p>\n<p>0:13:55.050,0:14:01.050<br \/>\nrelationship with because they decide<br \/>\nthat they&#8217;re not going to allow the app<\/p>\n<p>0:14:01.050,0:14:08.160<br \/>\nto work on the iPad I have no<br \/>\nunderstanding why but because well at<\/p>\n<p>0:14:08.160,0:14:15.840<br \/>\nthe end of the day I&#8217;m a geek at heart I<br \/>\ndiscover that you can trick the app and<\/p>\n<p>0:14:15.840,0:14:22.020<br \/>\nhopefully they are not listening there<br \/>\nis a software called ICAP mobile that is<\/p>\n<p>0:14:22.020,0:14:27.930<br \/>\nbasically a browser you can go into the<br \/>\nbrowser change the idea of your ground<\/p>\n<p>0:14:27.930,0:14:33.600<br \/>\nbrowser and now you tell grammerly that<br \/>\nyou are not an ipad but you are a<\/p>\n<p>0:14:33.600,0:14:39.210<br \/>\ncomputer ok a Mac or a PC and then<br \/>\ngrammerly works perfectly so it&#8217;s not<\/p>\n<p>0:14:39.210,0:14:44.280<br \/>\nthat their software is not capable it is<br \/>\nthat they have decide not to make it<\/p>\n<p>0:14:44.280,0:14:50.660<br \/>\navailable for the mobile version of the<br \/>\nbrowsers and so I&#8217;ve been able to use<\/p>\n<p>0:14:50.660,0:14:55.980<br \/>\ngrammarly on the iPad that way for many<br \/>\nyears if I need to give attack to<\/p>\n<p>0:14:55.980,0:15:01.440<br \/>\nsomebody obviously goes to pages because<br \/>\nfrom there I can turn it into a word or<\/p>\n<p>0:15:01.440,0:15:08.250<br \/>\nwhatever I need to and lastly I use my<br \/>\niPhone to record my voice as I said<\/p>\n<p>0:15:08.250,0:15:13.800<br \/>\nbefore you need sometimes to record what<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re reading so especially when you<\/p>\n<p>0:15:13.800,0:15:18.660<br \/>\nare getting into something new into a<br \/>\ntopic that is new for you it is really<\/p>\n<p>0:15:18.660,0:15:25.470<br \/>\nimportant until you find that new voice<br \/>\nof that topic you&#8217;re creating does<\/p>\n<p>0:15:25.470,0:15:30.900<br \/>\ngreat tools I wanted to make a note for<br \/>\nfolks that Paige&#8217;s Apple pages is<\/p>\n<p>0:15:30.900,0:15:36.990<br \/>\navailable within iCloud and I only know<br \/>\nthat because I was recently utilizing it<\/p>\n<p>0:15:36.990,0:15:41.850<br \/>\nwith a client who&#8217;s who&#8217;s in the midst<br \/>\nof writing a book and she wanted she was<\/p>\n<p>0:15:41.850,0:15:45.480<br \/>\nusing Apple pages inside said okay well<br \/>\nthis would be a great opportunity for me<\/p>\n<p>0:15:45.480,0:15:49.680<br \/>\nto learn about how the collaboration<br \/>\ntools work within the sort of iWork<\/p>\n<p>0:15:49.680,0:15:55.650<br \/>\nsuite that has now gone into the iCloud<br \/>\nplatform and so we tried it in and for<\/p>\n<p>0:15:55.650,0:15:57.330<br \/>\nall intents and purposes it works just<br \/>\nfine<\/p>\n<p>0:15:57.330,0:16:02.700<br \/>\nIII we haven&#8217;t gotten too heavy into it<br \/>\nand into it but you know it was able to<\/p>\n<p>0:16:02.700,0:16:06.960<br \/>\nwhat allows us to be able to share the<br \/>\nsame document edit the same document<\/p>\n<p>0:16:06.960,0:16:11.460<br \/>\ncomment on it and so and so forth and<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a it&#8217;s a pretty decent interface<\/p>\n<p>0:16:11.460,0:16:15.810<br \/>\nit&#8217;s obviously lacking some some of the<br \/>\nmore sophisticated pieces that you would<\/p>\n<p>0:16:15.810,0:16:19.440<br \/>\nhave within the down downloadable<br \/>\ndesktop version but you know I think<\/p>\n<p>0:16:19.440,0:16:24.240<br \/>\nit&#8217;s pretty competent for you to be able<br \/>\nto do a lot of your writing in the cloud<\/p>\n<p>0:16:24.240,0:16:28.770<br \/>\nso that&#8217;s pretty cool on the Google Docs<br \/>\nside I will I will make a note that<\/p>\n<p>0:16:28.770,0:16:35.840<br \/>\nthere is an option to do speech to text<br \/>\nand so on on the Mac I believe it is<\/p>\n<p>0:16:35.840,0:16:42.150<br \/>\ncommand shift s and on the PC it&#8217;s<br \/>\ncontrol shift FS and it opens up a<\/p>\n<p>0:16:42.150,0:16:45.930<br \/>\nmicrophone and if you have a microphone<br \/>\nembedded in your computer already then<\/p>\n<p>0:16:45.930,0:16:51.210<br \/>\nyou just speak and Google Docs will then<br \/>\ntranscribe whatever you&#8217;re saying and<\/p>\n<p>0:16:51.210,0:16:54.960<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve used this in a lot of different<br \/>\nenvironments from being in a meeting and<\/p>\n<p>0:16:54.960,0:16:59.580<br \/>\nwanting to just take notes and just<br \/>\nturning on the Google Docs and and<\/p>\n<p>0:16:59.580,0:17:03.990<br \/>\nkeeping an eye on it because if you if<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a silence for example then it<\/p>\n<p>0:17:03.990,0:17:08.310<br \/>\nstops listening because it&#8217;s like hey<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s nobody talking and once in a<\/p>\n<p>0:17:08.310,0:17:13.440<br \/>\nwhile not once in a while quite often<br \/>\nit&#8217;s inaccurate right so it&#8217;s maybe 85<\/p>\n<p>0:17:13.440,0:17:18.480<br \/>\nto 90 percent accurate so you know it&#8217;s<br \/>\njust the reality factor of you&#8217;re you<\/p>\n<p>0:17:18.480,0:17:21.540<br \/>\nhaving multiple voices you&#8217;re not<br \/>\nspeaking directly into the microphone<\/p>\n<p>0:17:21.540,0:17:26.190<br \/>\nthat kind of thing but if you if you are<br \/>\nyourself recording something then you<\/p>\n<p>0:17:26.190,0:17:30.720<br \/>\ncan you can just put your headset on and<br \/>\nspeak directly into Google Docs and and<\/p>\n<p>0:17:30.720,0:17:34.140<br \/>\nthe accuracy is getting better and<br \/>\nbetter every day at least for me so<\/p>\n<p>0:17:34.140,0:17:38.760<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s really helpful on on the note<br \/>\nabout Scrivener Scrivener has a<\/p>\n<p>0:17:38.760,0:17:44.340<br \/>\nequivalent it&#8217;s freeware it&#8217;s a it&#8217;s an<br \/>\nopen-source software called why writer<\/p>\n<p>0:17:44.340,0:17:48.810<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ll put links to all these tools in<br \/>\nthe show notes but why writer is really<\/p>\n<p>0:17:48.810,0:17:51.870<br \/>\ngreat because it also you know operates<br \/>\non sort of just creating these<\/p>\n<p>0:17:51.870,0:17:59.340<br \/>\nindependent RTF files and what you&#8217;re<br \/>\ndoing is you&#8217;re you can write scenes you<\/p>\n<p>0:17:59.340,0:18:03.780<br \/>\ncan write characters and then just sort<br \/>\nof slice and dice them put them together<\/p>\n<p>0:18:03.780,0:18:08.130<br \/>\ninto the story that you&#8217;re trying to<br \/>\ncreate when you&#8217;re doing in this case<\/p>\n<p>0:18:08.130,0:18:11.460<br \/>\nfiction pieces<br \/>\nso why writer is pretty phenomenal two<\/p>\n<p>0:18:11.460,0:18:15.770<br \/>\nother tools that I really just want to<br \/>\nnote is that from an email perspective<\/p>\n<p>0:18:15.770,0:18:22.650<br \/>\nboomerang the email tool that allows you<br \/>\nto be able to send email later within<\/p>\n<p>0:18:22.650,0:18:28.230<br \/>\nthe Gmail interface and also can return<br \/>\nan email to you say you want to get the<\/p>\n<p>0:18:28.230,0:18:33.090<br \/>\nemail to return to your inbox because<br \/>\nbecause someone didn&#8217;t respond with an X<\/p>\n<p>0:18:33.090,0:18:36.870<br \/>\nnumber of days we could do that in<br \/>\nboomer with boomerang well boomerang has<\/p>\n<p>0:18:36.870,0:18:41.580<br \/>\nanother functionality that they&#8217;ve built<br \/>\ninto the into the web browser extension<\/p>\n<p>0:18:41.580,0:18:47.030<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s called respond Abal and respond<br \/>\na bolt gives you an indicator as to how<\/p>\n<p>0:18:47.030,0:18:52.290<br \/>\nresponding your email is and this is<br \/>\nactually a tool that has been giving me<\/p>\n<p>0:18:52.290,0:18:57.720<br \/>\nfeedback in terms of writing shorter<br \/>\nmore concise emails and emails that have<\/p>\n<p>0:18:57.720,0:19:02.310<br \/>\nclearer questions and so if you&#8217;re<br \/>\nreally looking to get emails responded<\/p>\n<p>0:19:02.310,0:19:08.040<br \/>\nto what the the boomerang respond double<br \/>\nextension is actually really phenomenal<\/p>\n<p>0:19:08.040,0:19:12.210<br \/>\nI believe it&#8217;s just built into boomerang<br \/>\nbut you know you I&#8217;ll provide a link to<\/p>\n<p>0:19:12.210,0:19:15.870<br \/>\nit in the show notes so that you can you<br \/>\ncan find it but it&#8217;s really phenomenal<\/p>\n<p>0:19:15.870,0:19:19.020<br \/>\nbecause it gives you just a little<br \/>\nindicator that&#8217;s like green orange or<\/p>\n<p>0:19:19.020,0:19:22.620<br \/>\nred and it just eat green yellow or red<br \/>\nor something like that and it tells you<\/p>\n<p>0:19:22.620,0:19:27.240<br \/>\nwhether or not your email is going to be<br \/>\nresponded to with high likelihood or low<\/p>\n<p>0:19:27.240,0:19:32.160<br \/>\nlikelihood and based on its structure<br \/>\nand so I just think it&#8217;s really a you<\/p>\n<p>0:19:32.160,0:19:35.850<br \/>\nknow it&#8217;s a general help kind of thing<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s going to give you a<\/p>\n<p>0:19:35.850,0:19:41.430<br \/>\nguarantee of response but I like I like<br \/>\nknowing that it&#8217;s in the green and that<\/p>\n<p>0:19:41.430,0:19:46.050<br \/>\nthe email is you know I&#8217;m going to going<br \/>\nto reasonably get a response based on<\/p>\n<p>0:19:46.050,0:19:50.280<br \/>\nthe way that I&#8217;ve written it and then<br \/>\nthe final tool is called Zotero so if<\/p>\n<p>0:19:50.280,0:19:53.150<br \/>\nyou do any kind of Reese<br \/>\nespecially if you&#8217;re in an academic<\/p>\n<p>0:19:53.150,0:19:57.200<br \/>\nenvironment and you&#8217;re writing scholarly<br \/>\npieces or anything like that or if<\/p>\n<p>0:19:57.200,0:20:02.300<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re in school Zotero is just awesome<br \/>\nyou go to zotero&#8217;s website you can<\/p>\n<p>0:20:02.300,0:20:08.030<br \/>\ndownload both the desktop tool and the<br \/>\nweb browser extension and they work in<\/p>\n<p>0:20:08.030,0:20:12.740<br \/>\nconfluence to help you track any<br \/>\nmaterials that you might be reading and<\/p>\n<p>0:20:12.740,0:20:20.060<br \/>\nit does it does an automatic screenshot<br \/>\nof the material it downloads the<\/p>\n<p>0:20:20.060,0:20:24.680<br \/>\nmaterials metadata so that you can track<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all of that stuff for bibliography<\/p>\n<p>0:20:24.680,0:20:28.550<br \/>\ninch and footnoting and it just does it<br \/>\nso beautifully and while can&#8217;t speak<\/p>\n<p>0:20:28.550,0:20:33.950<br \/>\nmore highly of Zotero this this brings<br \/>\nus to sort of writing challenges what<\/p>\n<p>0:20:33.950,0:20:38.660<br \/>\nare the biggest writing challenges at<br \/>\nleast that I see when I am working with<\/p>\n<p>0:20:38.660,0:20:44.420<br \/>\nclients and the first one is of course<br \/>\nthe daily writing habit and gusto you<\/p>\n<p>0:20:44.420,0:20:49.310<br \/>\nand I both know that a daily writing<br \/>\nhabit is not easy you know for writing<\/p>\n<p>0:20:49.310,0:20:54.110<br \/>\nspecifically I don&#8217;t care how long you<br \/>\nhave been writing I&#8217;ve been writing for<\/p>\n<p>0:20:54.110,0:20:58.790<br \/>\na really long time and there is two<br \/>\nthings that happen to writing that you<\/p>\n<p>0:20:58.790,0:21:04.040<br \/>\nknow first it&#8217;s hard to write that<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s a fact okay second it&#8217;s hard to<\/p>\n<p>0:21:04.040,0:21:08.810<br \/>\njustify why we&#8217;re not writing today<br \/>\nthere is always something that seems<\/p>\n<p>0:21:08.810,0:21:12.740<br \/>\nmore important than writing and that<br \/>\nmake writing daily really difficult the<\/p>\n<p>0:21:12.740,0:21:18.530<br \/>\nother thing is we tend to think oh if I<br \/>\nget the inspiration I will write and in<\/p>\n<p>0:21:18.530,0:21:22.340<br \/>\nmy opinion inspiration only come when<br \/>\nyou write it there and sit there every<\/p>\n<p>0:21:22.340,0:21:29.090<br \/>\nday and inspirations know where to find<br \/>\nuh suddenly the other issue you find is<\/p>\n<p>0:21:29.090,0:21:34.010<br \/>\npeople forget that there is to process<br \/>\nand try to make it in one you know in<\/p>\n<p>0:21:34.010,0:21:39.170<br \/>\nthe same way when we talk about getting<br \/>\nthings done and he talks about collect<\/p>\n<p>0:21:39.170,0:21:43.940<br \/>\nand then process in writing it&#8217;s exactly<br \/>\nthe same there is a lot of people who<\/p>\n<p>0:21:43.940,0:21:48.560<br \/>\nduring the years in doing GTD especially<br \/>\nat the beginning try to collect and<\/p>\n<p>0:21:48.560,0:21:52.040<br \/>\nprocess at the same time and the results<br \/>\nare catastrophic right it is the same<\/p>\n<p>0:21:52.040,0:21:56.660<br \/>\nthing you need to learn to write forget<br \/>\nabout grammar comments just write just<\/p>\n<p>0:21:56.660,0:22:02.180<br \/>\ndump it there and then come and this<br \/>\nequivalent in productivity GTD to cook<\/p>\n<p>0:22:02.180,0:22:06.400<br \/>\nto collect and then come back<br \/>\nand process that&#8217;s right that&#8217;s when<\/p>\n<p>0:22:06.400,0:22:10.000<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re going to edit that&#8217;s where you<br \/>\ndiscover that you write right without a<\/p>\n<p>0:22:10.000,0:22:14.350<br \/>\nT engage and doesn&#8217;t make any sense on<br \/>\nthe sentence but it&#8217;s perfect because<\/p>\n<p>0:22:14.350,0:22:20.290<br \/>\nthen you let the brain go and the text<br \/>\nis here now you can work in to make it a<\/p>\n<p>0:22:20.290,0:22:25.270<br \/>\ntext okay I took me years to understand<br \/>\nthat writing is more about editing that<\/p>\n<p>0:22:25.270,0:22:29.590<br \/>\nabout writing writing is a sport the<br \/>\ndifficult part is to edit what you wrote<\/p>\n<p>0:22:29.590,0:22:35.680<br \/>\nbut when you try to do it at the same<br \/>\ntime it&#8217;s really almost impossible and<\/p>\n<p>0:22:35.680,0:22:40.570<br \/>\nthe third thing is what I call the<br \/>\nimposters in or what is called imposter<\/p>\n<p>0:22:40.570,0:22:45.310<br \/>\nsyndrome and that happened to everybody<br \/>\nespecially in writing okay Who I am to<\/p>\n<p>0:22:45.310,0:22:49.630<br \/>\ntell the people they&#8217;re there they&#8217;re<br \/>\ngoing to know it&#8217;s fake and now the<\/p>\n<p>0:22:49.630,0:22:54.310<br \/>\nreality is you are the guy who have read<br \/>\nyou know the 200 books again the reality<\/p>\n<p>0:22:54.310,0:22:58.300<br \/>\nis you are the guy who has spent all<br \/>\nthis time researching this and what<\/p>\n<p>0:22:58.300,0:23:04.210<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re saying is your perception of the<br \/>\npoint but it&#8217;s really hard to go over<\/p>\n<p>0:23:04.210,0:23:09.670<br \/>\nthat and let it go and you need to learn<br \/>\nto work with that imposter syndrome<\/p>\n<p>0:23:09.670,0:23:16.150<br \/>\nbecause the reality is even the mosque<br \/>\nif you listen to people and right now<\/p>\n<p>0:23:16.150,0:23:20.980<br \/>\nher name is escaping me Brenda Brown<br \/>\nfinally comes to my mind okay if you<\/p>\n<p>0:23:20.980,0:23:25.590<br \/>\nlisten to Brenda brown holes in must<br \/>\nstandards has been incredibly successful<\/p>\n<p>0:23:25.590,0:23:30.880<br \/>\nshe will tell you that she&#8217;s wake up<br \/>\nevery morning feeling like an impostor<\/p>\n<p>0:23:30.880,0:23:35.710<br \/>\nokay and she need to work every day<br \/>\nAkane&#8217;s her syndrome and that happened<\/p>\n<p>0:23:35.710,0:23:40.900<br \/>\nto everybody who rides I don&#8217;t care if<br \/>\nyou write fiction I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re<\/p>\n<p>0:23:40.900,0:23:47.440<br \/>\nright nonfiction or both or anything it<br \/>\nis it is a job at the end of the day<\/p>\n<p>0:23:47.440,0:23:52.510<br \/>\nwriting it is a job and you need to deal<br \/>\nwith that and deal with a beautiful part<\/p>\n<p>0:23:52.510,0:23:57.640<br \/>\nof the job and the ugly parts of the job<br \/>\nand feeling like an imposter is one of<\/p>\n<p>0:23:57.640,0:24:03.130<br \/>\nthe ugly things for the job yeah I<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t agree more that you know most<\/p>\n<p>0:24:03.130,0:24:08.740<br \/>\nof your if you&#8217;re going to take writing<br \/>\nas a serious part of your overall<\/p>\n<p>0:24:08.740,0:24:12.310<br \/>\nproductivity which I think everybody<br \/>\nshould you know as I said at the top of<\/p>\n<p>0:24:12.310,0:24:15.350<br \/>\nour show you spent a lot of time writing<br \/>\nand you don&#8217;t even<\/p>\n<p>0:24:15.350,0:24:18.919<br \/>\nrecognize maybe you do recognize it<br \/>\nmaybe you don&#8217;t but a lot of people<\/p>\n<p>0:24:18.919,0:24:22.940<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t recognize that you know writing is<br \/>\npart of the job because you do so much<\/p>\n<p>0:24:22.940,0:24:27.289<br \/>\nof it especially with regard to email or<br \/>\neven messaging in slack or documents<\/p>\n<p>0:24:27.289,0:24:30.650<br \/>\nthat you might be writing and a daily<br \/>\nwriting habit allows you to be able to<\/p>\n<p>0:24:30.650,0:24:36.799<br \/>\nstructure focus time there and you know<br \/>\nsort of like the the Pareto principle of<\/p>\n<p>0:24:36.799,0:24:39.770<br \/>\nwriting would be that 80% of your time<br \/>\nis spent<\/p>\n<p>0:24:39.770,0:24:44.270<br \/>\nediting 20% of your time is originating<br \/>\ncontent and you know you really need to<\/p>\n<p>0:24:44.270,0:24:47.360<br \/>\nspend you know more time editing than<br \/>\nyou do<\/p>\n<p>0:24:47.360,0:24:53.690<br \/>\nwriting and that&#8217;s just the reality of<br \/>\nit to have good you know writing pieces<\/p>\n<p>0:24:53.690,0:24:58.520<br \/>\nthe outcomes you really need to learn<br \/>\nhow to edit well so definitely you know<\/p>\n<p>0:24:58.520,0:25:02.929<br \/>\ntake the take the the critic off your<br \/>\nshoulder when you&#8217;re generating content<\/p>\n<p>0:25:02.929,0:25:06.140<br \/>\nand then put the critic back on your<br \/>\nshoulder when you&#8217;re editing content<\/p>\n<p>0:25:06.140,0:25:09.409<br \/>\npeople talk about writer&#8217;s block and I<br \/>\nthink you know writer&#8217;s block really<\/p>\n<p>0:25:09.409,0:25:14.030<br \/>\njust means that you haven&#8217;t found the<br \/>\nright inspiration at that moment and<\/p>\n<p>0:25:14.030,0:25:20.150<br \/>\nthis is where I highly recommend reading<br \/>\nor finding material that can be<\/p>\n<p>0:25:20.150,0:25:24.919<br \/>\ninspirational to you so that you can<br \/>\nstart writing I mean you know again a<\/p>\n<p>0:25:24.919,0:25:28.940<br \/>\ngusto can talk probably for the next<br \/>\nhour on resistance but since we don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:25:28.940,0:25:32.990<br \/>\nhave time for that you know I really do<br \/>\nthink that we should remember that this<\/p>\n<p>0:25:32.990,0:25:36.980<br \/>\nis not there&#8217;s no such thing as writer&#8217;s<br \/>\nblock in my opinion there there is<\/p>\n<p>0:25:36.980,0:25:42.020<br \/>\nliterally just you not writing or you<br \/>\nwriting and you always have a dialogue<\/p>\n<p>0:25:42.020,0:25:45.470<br \/>\ngoing on in your head and writing<br \/>\nbaguettes writing so if you write<\/p>\n<p>0:25:45.470,0:25:50.179<br \/>\nanything just start writing then you<br \/>\nwere able to then start to bring<\/p>\n<p>0:25:50.179,0:25:55.010<br \/>\nyourself back onto the path of what you<br \/>\nintend to write about so don&#8217;t don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:25:55.010,0:25:58.820<br \/>\nthink that writer&#8217;s block is anything<br \/>\nmore than a fiction you you start<\/p>\n<p>0:25:58.820,0:26:03.530<br \/>\nwriting anything and your mind will<br \/>\nstart getting into the routine of<\/p>\n<p>0:26:03.530,0:26:08.360<br \/>\nwriting when you tell it to so I think<br \/>\nthat those a real important factor about<\/p>\n<p>0:26:08.360,0:26:13.250<br \/>\nthat and you know Ann Lamont who wrote<br \/>\nthe book bird by bird talks about having<\/p>\n<p>0:26:13.250,0:26:19.070<br \/>\nwhat she calls I&#8217;m quoting here shitty<br \/>\nfirst drafts and and so you know those<\/p>\n<p>0:26:19.070,0:26:23.110<br \/>\nfirst drafts those those crummy first<br \/>\ndrafts those bad first drafts are<\/p>\n<p>0:26:23.110,0:26:28.130<br \/>\nimperative to you to you getting to<br \/>\ngreat pieces of work at the end of the<\/p>\n<p>0:26:28.130,0:26:29.929<br \/>\nday<br \/>\ngood pieces of work it doesn&#8217;t have to<\/p>\n<p>0:26:29.929,0:26:35.840<br \/>\nbe great it just has to be good and you<br \/>\nknow the reality is is that once you do<\/p>\n<p>0:26:35.840,0:26:41.720<br \/>\nthat you&#8217;re able to then edit and edit<br \/>\ninto you know good places you know more<\/p>\n<p>0:26:41.720,0:26:48.409<br \/>\nthan more than that I I I want to to<br \/>\ngive our listeners with a quote about<\/p>\n<p>0:26:48.409,0:26:56.929<br \/>\nwriting from a writer called Robert has<br \/>\nwho said it&#8217;s hell writing and it&#8217;s hell<\/p>\n<p>0:26:56.929,0:27:04.490<br \/>\nnot writing the only tolerable state is<br \/>\nhaving just written and think about that<\/p>\n<p>0:27:04.490,0:27:11.179<br \/>\nwhen you come it is really hard to write<br \/>\nand if you have not been writing you<\/p>\n<p>0:27:11.179,0:27:18.260<br \/>\nknow it&#8217;s harder for hard hard to not<br \/>\nbeen right the only fun stage is written<\/p>\n<p>0:27:18.260,0:27:21.769<br \/>\nbut you could see this stuff when you<br \/>\ncan see the stuff you publish when you<\/p>\n<p>0:27:21.769,0:27:27.470<br \/>\nconsider books on the Shelf but the only<br \/>\nway that will happen is if you go<\/p>\n<p>0:27:27.470,0:27:32.360<br \/>\nthrough hell with a smile<br \/>\nsmiling is always a good a good tactic<\/p>\n<p>0:27:32.360,0:27:39.529<br \/>\nright smile in the mirror as they say so<br \/>\nso for those of you who might have some<\/p>\n<p>0:27:39.529,0:27:44.809<br \/>\nwriting challenges on our website if you<br \/>\ngo to productivity castanet and again<\/p>\n<p>0:27:44.809,0:27:49.399<br \/>\nthe link is there in the show notes if<br \/>\nyou go to productivity castanet you can<\/p>\n<p>0:27:49.399,0:27:55.730<br \/>\nfind a forum you can send us your<br \/>\nquestions regarding issues you might<\/p>\n<p>0:27:55.730,0:27:59.870<br \/>\nhave with writing productivity and Augusto and I are happy to tackle them we<\/p>\n<p>0:27:59.870,0:28:04.700<br \/>\nalso have a voice recording tool so if<br \/>\nyou want to be on the podcast we can<\/p>\n<p>0:28:04.700,0:28:08.659<br \/>\nfilter through some of the good<br \/>\nquestions and maybe we&#8217;ll hear your<\/p>\n<p>0:28:08.659,0:28:13.700<br \/>\nvoice 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