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It’s distressingly simple to spoil even the most creative digital brochure, never mind how much energy has been put into it, with poor digital publishing software. The key part of producing an ebrochure is picking the software provider you’ll use. Formatting your content is merely a minute part of their job.

Ease of use is the most important feature to look for. The software package could be the most extraordinary you’ve seen - but without being able to use it, it isn’t worth a damn. Make the time to dry run different packages before you select a provider for your ezine. In creating a digital brochure you also need to maintain awareness of the problems posed by spammers. Consider what is protecting your ebrochure. Is it possible for people to just copy and paste the brochure content or does the digital publishing software vendor have protection preventing this? Is the content secure?

When you’ve made a flash brochure that’s the point to make up a commercialization timetable. Whatever your business plan may look like, you’ll need to investigate these matters — maybe not for every single publication but for the company overall. What use will you make of networking media? What have you thought of regarding treating advertising? Marketing this interactive journal will likely require search engine optimized content. When producing an online publication, you’ll want to deal with old issues. Is your electronic publication going to be generally accessible? If you’re planning on wide accessibility, then try hosting it with your provider. How will you advertise the interactive brochure?

Technical support is a huge consideration in your selection of vendor. Is it merely emergency technical support? How long is the response time? Examine any how-to sections are there. These things might seem unimportant now, but should there be an emergency, you’ll be glad you thought about this ahead of time.

The selection you make here will be what determines whether your brochure goes well or not - think carefully before choosing your vendor. Try googling the terms “create digital edition” for further information.

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After the video production is done, the editing chapter kicks off. Generally editing control units stay on the whole with the editing studios and the technically expert professionals give a high level of ingenuity throughout the editing procedure. Normally during the editing procedure the positive pieces of the video recordings are labelled and unwanted sections are eliminated. There is a range of useful software packages that are in high use for this purpose. The aim of the video is analyzed and subtle changes are finished also. Sound clips & background music are also made use of during editing process. There is in addition Special Effect Generators (SPG) which makes the chosen video clips even more attractive. Some of the creative companies provide the footages and the editing services. For online video publishing solutions that best meet the needs of your business, visit the Vidify website today.

At the moment many online video production businesses operate to satisfy needs of different businesses. As well as businesses presentations, videography is also used to preserve golden events of life such as weddings, birthdays, special festivities; travel and so forth. Portable video cameras with digital chips are today commonly available in the market. Short films have grown to be popular as well as being very enlightening and compelling. In actual fact online videos allow people to relate better with the subject than any other brand of online communications.

Today, numerous people are setting up video production companies as demand of these kinds of businesses are increasing. It is also feasible to get hold of stacks information from the Web on video production just with a few mouse clicks. The growth of online video industry has assisted the growth of short-format online video commercials & to develop gorgeous commercials, a good video production organisation is crucial. Online videos play an important role in carrying out of business strategies & currently online video marketing and publishing is a well-liked idea among the web users. Therefore, across the globe online video production and publishing plays a major responsibility.

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The shrewd old Chinese saying has a very strong significance; the proverb portrayed the reality that we all acknowledge an occasion extensively more when it is watched. Via video production or videography it’s realistic to record a series of occasions. Vidify’s digital video distribution channels can help generate the awareness and impact that your video content deserves.

Nowadays in loads of company presentations, video is generally utilised. By using video production services it’s viable to deliver the essential information to several different potential clients to help encourage them. Online Video production is at the present employed for all sorts of tasks; however, several short format online videos & brand related productions are usually made in order to accomplish specific company goals.

Audio video presentations are now in vogue & are therefore used in nearly any brand of corporate activity. Creative businesses at the outset normally interact with a certain type of client or an organisation that looks to develop an online corporate video, a presentation or a collection of video clips. The entire occupation of video production is normally carried out by a couple of freelancers; however there are a select number of good specialist video production companies around at the moment.

The involvement of music composers, cameraman & script writers can also be common when creating internet video productions. What’s more, marketing firms and PR agencies have lately become involved with video production and marketing.

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How is a writer to access her deepest and most powerful wells of creativity? How do we tap into our talent, our genius, our greatest potential for success? Writing classes often tell us how to plot, or structure, or build characters, or create poetic images, but the question of accessing our excellence is a slippery and elusive one. It is possible we’ll need to go outside our usual sources to find an answer.

Many will merely say “be born with talent,” coldly suggesting that writers are “born” with a particular amount of potential, and that one either has this or not. And you know? There is a certain amount of truth to this. It is hard to argue with the idea that geniuses like Mozart or Shakespeare were gifted. But the nature versus nurture argument is both fascinating and, for the average person, irrelevant. After all, since we can’t go back and choose our grandparents, what are we to do? Just abandon our dreams of excellence if we don’t happen to be one of the gifted few?

I often say something to students that is both deadly serious and a slight (and deliberate) exaggeration. It is this “I don’t believe in talent. Every time I’ve ever gotten close to an excellent performer in any discipline, all I’ve seen is a lifetime of hard, honest work.”

Why would I say something like this? Because it is the way I truly feel. The fact is that I’ve seen endless people fail due to lack of honest work. And given those years or decades of work, I’ve seen few fail for lack of talent.

The truth is that if “talent” exists, it seems to be the capacity for long, concentrated periods of tunnel-vision focus, combined with a unique capacity for digging into themselves to find truths most of us are reluctant to reveal. These phenomenal men and women sacrifice outside interests, relationships, and sometimes their health and sanity to focus on their divine obsession. And yes, if you find a group of these people, some will rise higher than others. But the primary gift of art is to be able to spend your life in the act of creation. And to do that, you don’t need to be “the best” (whatever THAT means). All you need to do is to get into the top twenty percent in your field, and you’ll do just fine.

And that is achievable with focus and honesty. But what exactly do I mean by that?

FOCUS

1) Can you write 500 words a day for twenty years?

2) Can you concentrate for an hour at a time without stopping for coffee, phone calls, or bathroom breaks?

3) Can you shut out the voices of doubt and failure? Then you have a chance. In my own life, writing was simply my only career goal. I would rather have failed as a writer than succeeded at anything else. I was willing to do ANYTHING ethical and healthy to reach that goal, and every single day I asked myself new questions about how I could do it, who I could ask, what I could read, what classes I might attend. Willingness to postpone gratification is essential, because your efforts simply won’t pay off rapidly unless you are in that incredibly lucky fraction of a percent. And there is good news: even if you believe in “talent,” in the real world, an absolutely driven “B” or “C” student will outperform a lazy “A” student almost every time.

HONESTY. This is where the rubber meets the road, the diamond path to excellence.

1) What is your actual current skill level? What is the skill level necessary to make it in your chosen field? Make no mistake: writing is one of the most competitive fields in the world. EVERYONE thinks they can write, and to a degree, they are correct. If you’re going to make your mark, you will have to bring everything you’ve got.

2) Who has the resources you need to bridge the gap between your current and desired skill levels? Remember that they have probably spent a lifetime gathering their knowledge. What can you offer them (that is ethical and healthy for you) to gain their help and support?

3) What do you fear most? Love most? What angers you most? Makes you laugh? Your ability to create memorable characters will be based on the depths of your self-understanding, and capacity to accurately observe the human condition. If you can dig deeply enough, you’ll find an incredible wealth of subject matter, more than enough to last a lifetime. But you must be honest. When writing to stimulate an emotion in your audience, first write to trigger that feeling in yourself. Write for yourself, or for an audience you respect.

4) What is your best effort? There is a great scene in “Walk The Line” where a music producer tells Johnny Cash to imagine he is dying in the street. He has one last song to sing to sum up the totality of his existence. What would that song be? Questions like this cut through the b.s. Don’t try to be clever. Just tell the truth.

5) What do you actually believe human beings are? At the core of us, under all of the ugly and pretty. What are we? How do you explain the differences and conflicts between human beings: black and white, gay and straight, male and female. What do you think love is? What causes war? Why do we dream? Your own unique answers to these questions will point you toward your personal “voice.”

6) What is the nature of the universe? Of God? Is there anything out there? Are we alone? While it is possible to write stories and screenplays from a variety of philosophical positions, the writer who knows herself and has a position on the nature of life will outperform a “brilliant” writer who has nothing to say. Dig deep.

These two aspects, (1) hard work, and (2) honesty, will keep you busy for a lifetime, and take you to the very edge of your potential as a writer. And after all, if you haven’t used up all the potential you were given at birth, it hardly makes sense to complain that you didn’t get more!

Steven Barnes has published over three million words of fiction, and been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Cable Ace awards. He is the writer of the Emmy-winning “A Stitch In Time” episode of the Outer Limits. Sign up for a FREE Lifewriting tip at: www.lifewriting.biz

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Bookcoaching clients come to me at different stages of writing their books. The ones who start from ground zero with a coach and learn what goes into each chapter to make it more readable and sell better. The ones who have been writing a long time, a year or so even. They often leave the project because they ran out of gas–got stuck what to do next. They may think they can manifest their book dream now and make millions.

You want to build your reputation. You want to use your book to brand your business and attract new clients. If your book is almost ready and you think it’s ready for a publisher or self-publishing, think again!

You may just need a line editor who can certainly use “grammar check” and put those commas where they belong. But, if you need to know if your book will sell well, you need to get feedback on a few parts of your book so far. A sample chapter, a table of contents, these are just the beginning of what you need to hit the top selling book charts. If you contact a professional bookcoach or consultant, she will notice if you answered your audience’s major questions that led them to buy your book..

Ask yourself, “does my book benefit my audience in each chapter so they will finish it, finish the book and recommend it to others?”

Check List to Help you Know What’s Missing in your Book

___Sizzling title because this is the #1 way to sell books

___Professional front cover because this #2 way to sell books

___My preferred audience who need and want this book

___Five-Ten benefits that will answer my audience’s question, “Why should I buy your book?”

___The 30-60 Second Tell and Sell

___Branded chapter titles and beginnings that help sell

___Table of Contents that motivate the reader to read

___Your back cover Five Essentials that sell book

___Front matter that fits your book’s style

___Back matter that includes a sales page and more

___What cover person is best for your book?

___What Print on Demand printing company is best for you?

___Where to find your targeted market so your book will sell well

___How to reach your targeted market the best way for you.

___Your Book Marketing plan before you leap

___Your best promotion, publicity and other techniques to sell books

This checklist can give you a real picture of how finished your book is. You can either choose to put a little more effort and money into it to get accepted by your audience or you can quit and chalk it up as another life experience.

Judy Cullins ©2005 All Rights Reserved.

Judy Cullins, 20-year Book and Internet Marketing Coach works with small business people who want to make a difference in people’s lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income. Judy is author of 10 eBooks including Write your eBook or Other Short Book Fast, Ten Non-Techie Ways to Market Your Book Online, The Fast and Cheap Way to Explode Your Targeted Web Traffic, and Power Writing for Web Sites That Sell. She offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, “The BookCoach Says…,” “Business Tip of the Month,” blog Q & A at http://www.bookcoaching.com/opt-in.shtml and over 170 free articles.

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The written word and verbal communication each have their own unique styles. Moreover, each has its own time and place. When we write, we stay within strict guidelines of grammar and syntax. A written correspondence often conveys a serious or urgent message, or is reserved for special occasions such as wedding invitations and thank-you notes. When we speak, we are more informal and imprecise. Grammatical rules are not always obeyed and tone, mood and urgency are relayed in the inflections of our voice or in our body language.

Let’s look at the following for an example of this difference.

The written word: “Kindly remit the requested amount forthwith.”
Oral style: “Please pay your bill right away.”

These not-so-subtle differences are the reason why it is better to prepare your speech from outlines rather than attempt to deliver carefully worded, fully written out speeches. A written speech will often sound stilted and too rehearsed while a speech given from an outline will be far more conversational in tone. This will help you to build a rapport with your audience and to infuse your speech with humor, anecdotes and other details that require the timing and intimacy of real conversation. An outline will help you to stay on course, to cover all of the important points you wish to make, and to keep track of statistics and other vital details. Your speech will still be accurate, but by using an outline instead of a prepared manuscript you will entertain your audience, not bore them.

Typically, oral sentences are shorter than written sentences; we use fewer words when we speak than when we write. In fact, more than half of our speaking vocabulary is made up of only 50 simple words. The oral style is also more personal. People are referred to more often, and words such as “I,” “me,” and “you” are used frequently. When we write, we have a tendency to take ourselves out of the message being relayed. Even if the purpose is to persuade or argue, it is at times considered more impartial, and therefore more credible, to speak from the point of view of the third person. This is not the case when we speak. In public speaking we want to appear as though we are having a one-on-one exchange with our audience members, even when we are speaking to a room full of people. It is more acceptable to come from a personal, more passionate perspective when we speak. We make it personal because that is what our audience will understand; we need it to become personal to them as well.

Public speaking is the art of perfecting the oral style, using the subtle nuances of conversation and pairing them with research and persuasive details. Being a strong writer is vital to career success in nearly every field and is an important talent to nurture. But being able to recognize when the written word is needed and when a less formal, conversational oral style is needed will make you an outstanding presenter as well as a powerful writer.

Amy Dunn Williams is a freelance writer and public relations professional. She holds a M.S. in communications from Ithaca College as well as a B.A. in English from Le Moyne College. Amy resides in Ithaca, New York with her husband.

This article was produced for Toastmasters Public Speaking, copyright 2005.

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What is a Memorandum of Understanding?

Traditionally a memorandum was a short, semi-formal document used to transmit messages inside an organisation. Memoranda were used to document agreements (understandings) between internal departments, work units and individuals and thus the memorandum that documented these “understandings” became a “Memorandum of Understanding” or MOU. Eventually usage widened to also encompass organisations and individuals outside the originating organisation. Today MOUs are commonly formatted as letters, memos and other documents.

Irrespective of how they are formatted, MOUs should detail the agreement between individuals or organisations (or even countries) succinctly and in unambiguous terms. Each partner to the agreement needs to sign indicating agreement.

Why are MOUs Important?

Here’s an example of a situation when an MOU may have saved the day. An infection control conference had been organised and it ran for three days. A conference organiser had been hired by a friend of mine who was primarily responsible for organising the conference, but no written agreement between the two existed. The second day into the conference there was a dispute between my friend and the conference organiser about whose responsibility it was to collect payment from conference attendees who wanted to visit local tourist attractions; my friend said the conference organiser had verbally agreed to do it; the conference organiser said it was my friend’s responsibility and that he had made no such agreement.
Eventually, one of the members of the organising committee collected and banked the money and coordinated visits to tourist spots about town.

This was an occasion on which an MOU would have prevented a dispute. By referring to the MOU, both parties would have known exactly what was, or was not their responsibility.

How to write an MOU

Usually a summary at the beginning of the MOU to set the scene is required and then simply use two other paragraphs titled something like “What We Will Do” and “What You Will Do”. Like this:

“I refer to our discussions wherein you agreed to provide team building training to staff at the Nhulunbuy office of the agency. Our respective responsibilities are detailed below:

What We Will Do

The agency will provide:

1. a conference room with white board, overhead projector and seating for 20 people
2. mixed sandwiches, tea, coffee and fruit juice refreshments for lunch for attendees and instructors
3. a payment of $12,345.00 including goods and services tax to you by electronic transfer within 14 days of the program closure
4. instructional materials up to 100 pages for each attendee

What you will Do

We will provide:

1. team building training as per our course outline, to 20 people at the Nhulunbuy office of the agency at an all inclusive cost of $12,345.00 including GST
2. submit our tax invoice within two days of course delivery
3. a work book titled, “Effective Team Building” to each student and an additional copy for the agency library

Please read this MOU and if you agree to the responsibilities shown for this agency and yours, please sign it and return the original to the agency.”

A genuine MOU would have had more items in both lists, but this gives you the general idea. Everything each signatory to the agreement will do is specified, usually in bulleted form.

Accessing the Terms

Once you have your MOU in place, signed by both (or all) parties, you can refer to it whenever necessary either to refresh your memory about your obligations or to help resolve a dispute. If it’s in black and white and you agreed to it, then it’s difficult to argue the contrary.

Obviously if there is a lot of money involved, or a project is complex, it’s more appropriate to have a legal practitioner draft up a formal contract. For those activities however, when a contract is not necessary, an MOU can help reduce the chances of disputes or misunderstandings.

Copyright 2006 Robin Henry

Robin Henry is an educator, human resources specialist and Internet entrepreneur. He helps home-based businesses and individuals improve performance by applying smart technology and processes and developing personally. He runs his business Desert Wave Enterprises from his home base at Alice Springs in Central Australia, although at present he is on temporary assignment in the United Arab Emirates. Robin has just released his fifth ebook, “Guide to Letter Formatting and Writing”.

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The Heart of The Delay: Harnessing the Wisdom of Procrastination, AKA Writer’s Block

I am sure that at in some era, at some desk, with some kind of paper (and perhaps some very special ink), some writer has breezed through a lengthy and challenging project from beginning to end with no delays. No one in her household has suffered, she’s felt pleased at each step of the process, and her shoulders have never cried out for massage. I’m sure of this.

I am equally certain that for most people, writing projects have at least some period of delay. Sometimes, it takes the form of distraction, and a bit of discipline works just fine to bring us back. Other times, our life’s work or inspiration of the moment sits there, waiting for us to get back to it, and every incomplete we’ve ever taken in school, every shaming message we’ve ever heard, or self-doubt we’ve ever felt encrusts the project like so many barnacles.

Worse still, “procrastination” and “writer’s block” pop up in writer’s tracts like names of diseases that need “cures,” the right sledgehammer, or perhaps simply to be ignored. While some writers may find it helpful to have a name for what gets in the way of what they’re trying to achieve, “writer’s block” or “procrastination” can falsely universalize very different phenomena. My obstacles, yours, and hers may be different animals, different species or even perhaps silicon-based non-organic entities. Framing them as negative blocks the opportunity to learn something about ourselves or our writing.

For example, my reluctance to finish my novel may reflect a correct hunch about a major flaw in the story structure I’m loathe to face, while yours may stem from guilt about being the first in your family to succeed at an intellectual task. Each of us has an opportunity to notice and deal directly with the heart of the delay, rather than its limbs which trip us. Dealing with the heart of the delay could lead us down a more effective and sustainable path than the one we’d forge by simply steamrolling over the delay, or walking around it. I might need to bring in a book doctor to raise the quality of my work, while you might need to have a heart-to-heart with a family member, neutral third party, or both about what it means for you to succeed as a writer.

I humbly suggest the following: When next you find your mind meandering anywhere but to your work, don’t beat yourself up. Instead, give a listen to what’s guiding you astray. The answer may surprise youand give you some clues about how to proceed with your project on the clearest path possible. Here are some questions to help you determine what’s tripping you up, as well as some responses to each.

1) Do you have in mind an ideal way of doing things, and then get paralyzed when you start to do things in your own natural quirky way?
Here’s permission, then. Write out of order.
If ideas for the middle or end of your book come before the beginning, go with it. You can always move things later.
Multitaskuse one project to procrastinate from doing another.

If you’ve done your emotional homework and find that you still procrastinate (and many great writers do), have other projects in the pipeline so that when you find yourself drifting from the one big project, you’ve got others to work on to fill your time until you can get back to that one. If you’re stopped in your tracks because you think you have to work in a certain way, get back to the drawing board! Work on the pieces that compel you when you feel like working on them.

2) Is it possible that you lose the big picture of what you’re doing in the daily details?
Connect your deepest desires and visions to each moment of your work.

Distill your longings into a sentence or paragraph such as “I am a published writer who gets great reviews and makes my entire living through my writing,” and post this in a visible place. Say it out loud to your mirror each time you begin your work. It might seem hokey, but many writers find that it actually helps to keep the big picture in mind.

3) Do you have a realistic image of the quality of your work?
Find out what if any kind of help you need, then get it.

A society of journalists was asked how many writers were in the room. Nearly all the hands went up. Then the speaker asked how many of the writers considered themselves “good writers.” Nearly half the hands went down.

While even the best writers doubt their skill, others suffer from overconfidence. Well, maybe overconfident writers don’t experience suffering themselves, but their careers (and perhaps their peers) can suffer for their lack of help getting their writing to a publishable place. If you find yourself putting off work because you don’t know if it’s any good, find out. Get a professional in the field with obvious credentials to help you make that determination, or do it yourself.

If you find out your work stands up content-wise, you may still need an outside eye to tell you whether your writing is okay on its own, or you need professional assistance to make it publishable. An editor experienced in your type of manuscript will be able to help you polish your prose to a high sheen.

Another option is ghostwriting, or hiring a professional writer to pen some or all of your manuscript. Many of the most famous authors hire ghostwriters to help them get their message across. Sometimes they’re credited on the cover with an “and” or “with,” but often they’re silent partners, hence the term “ghost.”

Having marketable ideas is one thingfinding the language to best articulate them is another entirely. Don’t kill yourself trying to develop a skill that takes years to hone when you’ve got other more compelling plans, and when there are plenty of people already prepped for that task. We live in a specialized society expressly for not having to kill ourselves trying to deliver garbage, make contact lenses, paint all the artwork on our walls, and yes, craft and polish all our own prose.

4) Who is in your immediate environment?
Take a look, give a listen. Is what you observe conducive to writing?

On one end of the solitude-contact continuum is the person who works best alone. On the other end is someone who needs a partner to check in and collaborate with at each stage of the process. What are your needs around other people’s involvement in your work? For the solitary type, the solution could be finding a “room of one’s own,” or at least a borrowed space with peace and quiet enough to think and write.

At the other end it could be finding a buddy, coach or collaborator to check in with regularly. In the middle, where lots of people find themselves, are authors who attend local writers groups or participate in online communities. Take the time to notice and get to know your own needs, and to create the space and/or support you need to move forward.

5) Is some healing in order?
At the deepest level of your awareness, what do you feel and believe about yourself and your writing?
On another plane entirely from practical concerns are wounds of the soul that need healing. It’s difficult to allow our excellence to shine when we truly believe we’re not worthy, or that to succeed would betray some unspoken agreement about staying small.

If everything within you wants to move forward into the world with your writing, and something inside you is holding you back, realize that only you can make the decision to find the therapist, spiritual counselor, coach or practice to move you through that place. Procrastination could be a signal to finally heal an old wound.

6) Is this project the best expression of what you love and want to put out into the world right now?
Ascertain or revisit what made you put your energy behind this project.

Whether it’s money, prestige, self-expression, career advancement or something else, ask yourself if your original reasons are congruent with your current needs. If not, give yourself permission to do something else.

7) Are you afraid of the impact you’ll make on the world, whether positive or negative?
You should beif you’ve never been published before, you’re about to lose your anonymity.

Consider using a pen name, at least for the time you’re writing. You can always change it back later. I did this for the very first essay I ever published, because at the time, I felt shy about writing about sex, and also wanted to protect those whom I discussed in the essay.

guerilla tip: Most writers will not become all that famous, and the feedback most of us receive is damned scant. Soconsider using your real name before going to press. If you go on to build your career around related material, you’ll be grateful you did.

Do You Need to Reassess your Pace?
Maybe the goals you’ve set aren’t realistic for you.

Procrastination can be an utterly human attempt to create a sustainable work pace. If you expect eight hours of writing a day from yourself six days a week, no wonder your body’s rebelling. If your goals more clearly meet your known capabilities, and you’re still having difficulty meeting them, ask yourself honestly whether your timetable makes sense for you today.

Your life may have changed since you last set the pace of your writing treadmill. If so, change your expectations to ones you’re more likely to achievethen reward yourself when you do. If you still have trouble, consider structural supports, like a writing buddy, group, or some form of coaching.

9) Do you think your first drafts have to be perfect?
Come on. You’re slinging mud on a wall. Or, if you prefer, as one of my clients put it, “I just put one word in front of the other.”

You’re going to go through so many revisions from the time you put those first few words down to the time you’re polished, that you might as well bulk up the page now. There will be plenty of time for trimming later.

10) Do you hate the idea of rewriting yet one more time?
Of course you do. People in other fields get to be finished with their tasks when they stop working, and enjoy the fruits of their labors. But nooooo, not writers! There’s always another draft in the wings.

Face itendless rewriting sucks. You know and I know it needs doing, but isn’t there a better way? The bad news is, the only way around is through. The good news is, you can reward yourself for each phase, and I encourage you to do so.

11) When was the last time you saw the sky?
Get outside, for crying out loud. Humans were never meant to spend all day immersed in words.

Some days, your procrastination may be telling you to Get A Life. If so, listen. Enjoy yourself. However talented you are and however important your work, you aren’t your writing. At least not entirely. Breaking up your day with physical activities, or anything very different from writing will give you a fresh perspective on your text. Plus, when this project is all over, you’ll want to have had a bit of sunshine from time to time, maybe a friendship or two.

Remember, not all bouts of delay are alike. Yours might carry a message. Take the time to listen, heed and respond to that message. Your writingand your lifewill be better for it.

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Author Jill Nagle is founder and principal of GetPublished,
http://www.GetPublished.com, which provides coaching, consulting, ghostwriting, classes and do-it-yourself products to emerging and published authors. Her most recent book is How to Find An Agent Who Can Sell Your Book for Top Dollar http://www.FindTheRightAgent.com.

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Author Jill Nagle is founder and principal of GetPublished,
http://www.GetPublished.com, which provides coaching, consulting, ghostwriting, classes and do-it-yourself products to emerging and published authors. Her most recent book is How to Find An Agent Who Can Sell Your Book for Top Dollar http://www.FindTheRightAgent.com.

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