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The Geology of Writing
How getting your rocks sorted can help you be more productive
What’s writing got to do with geology? Well, it’s all to do with prioritisation and focus.
I did this as an exercise, the other week, at one of the writers’ groups I go to, and it’s a great way of showing how important it is having your writing projects correctly prioritised.
First you have time, represented by this jar:
Time is fixed. We all have the same amount of time. Nobody has any more time than anyone else. Those who achieve more simply use it more efficiently.
When it comes to writing, many of us have lots of plans and goals we’d like to achieve. Some of us want to write novels, or non-fiction books. We also want to write articles and stories. Perhaps you want to put together a poetry collection this year. And then there’s all the other writing-related stuff, like social media (because publishers are always banging on about how writers MUST have a social media presence). So we need to have author pages on Facebook, and we must interact with our readers, tweet them with our latest news, as well as all the other admin stuff of…
