Not Too Busy To Write

Episode 8 - Writing in short bursts


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When life is busy, we don't always get the long stretches of time we would ideally like to have to write. So how do you train yourself to write in tiny spaces of time?

Ali and Penny discuss the techniques they have used over the past few years when time is short. From keeping up the frequency so your mind is never far from the project, to using mini rituals and music to short cut your way to writing mode, this is an episode which questions our default excuse to avoid writing because we only have tiny pockets available to us.

Links mentioned

Janet Murray Membership (virtual co-working)

London Writers Salon (writers hour)

Books

Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th century Paris by Asti Hustvedt

Holy Anorexia by Rudolf M Bell

Summerwater by Sarah Moss

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