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A Blast From the Past
Unexpected results from following writing advice.
I am a new writer and am finding my way to more productive writing. I am in a class that Shaunta Grimes hosts and she started a class suggesting we figure out how to maximize our writing time.
One of her regular suggestions is to say that you only have to write for 10 minutes every day. You can always do more but as long as you do 10 minutes you are productive. Of course, what usually happens is that once you start, you write for more than 10 minutes.
I am retired now and my time is my own. But when you are not sure what to write or how to fix what you wrote then the laundry calls me, that sink with a few dishes need to be emptied and OMG my email is so long I have to read them so I can clear the box!
My biggest issue is that I am a morning person and get up early and tend to do my exercises each morning. I walk 3 times a week for one and a half hours, I run 3 times a week for an hour, and I also take a TRX/circuit training class twice a week. By the time lunch is over, so am I. I have no energy left. When I start to perk up just before dinner I do a thirty-minute yoga class on YouTube. Dinner, then I’m done again.
In this class, she asked if there were any suggestions. One young woman said it used to be her job to…
