Ignore Common Writing Advice — Do this Instead

August Birch
Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read

A tragic tale of procrastination, shiny-objects, and low-productivity

Don’t put off the hard parts of your writing

I’m a natural procrastinator. I like a good, shiny object more than anyone. You put something interesting before me and I’ll drop whatever I’m doing to go chase after the new thing.

I was a shiny-object chaser with my writing, until recently.

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