The Fine Art of Saying No
Christine Sneed PloughShares
via Jen Cross
“Establishing a workable routine is of paramount importance if you hope to write regularly, but the practical concerns of the writing life probably aren’t discussed as much as they should be. How, in the avalanche of tasks we must accomplish in any given week, do we find the time to write? How do we make ourselves stop surfing the internet when we should be revising a story? Jonathan Franzen has said that it’s almost impossible for him to get writing done if he has internet access. Plenty of others feel the same, I’m certain. “