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Free Worksheets for Writers

| March 27, 2023

I love sharing free resources for authors, like these worksheets by Jami Gold and other authors! There are worksheets for story, plot, characters, and more craft things, as well as worksheets for business aspects of writing. Take a look and see if there’s something there you can use!  

Heat Mapping Productivity

| January 23, 2023

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on productivity heat mapping so I can get a better sense of the best way to structure my days. This is a system by which you look at your day in hour-long segments and see when you’ve had the best productive hours and the least productive hours. […]

Time Tracking

| March 28, 2022

One of the most valuable takeaways I’ve gotten from the productivity and creativity classes I worked on earlier this year is the idea of time tracking. In my day job, we track the amount of time we spend on projects in 15-minutes increments, so it’s not something that was foreign to me. But the idea […]

What A Day Looks Like

| January 24, 2022

As I mentioned previously, I’m doing a lot of work this year with productivity and scheduling. As part of this, I’ve been tracking where my time goes in fifteen-minute increments throughout the day to see when I’m working on what type of project, and how much time I’m spending on things. One of the things […]