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A New Year!
It's nearly the end of the year and it's time for personal review. Time to look at what your personal goals were and what you've accomplished. Sure, there are tons of outside influences that can affect what happens with your timeline, but it's a good habit to take time to reassess what you are doing and what is actually being accomplished.
Take time to look at how you spend your precious writing time. Do you squander it on social media, click bait and cute kittens? Okay, cute kittens are hard to give up. But it's easy to lose precious minutes to things that don't fit into your good writing habits. I find myself spending too much time "getting ready" to write, like making tea or straightening my desk. Once I get going I seem to do well staying on task.
Also take time to look at how you carve out time in the day to write. I generally try to write early in the day before I get distracted by family and errands. Where I lose time is reading back on previous days and fiddling around editing small things. I do much better if I leave it and spend a single day with a few hours doing stringent editing. Sometimes it is easy to jump through and do your editing and sometimes it's a nightmare because of a simple mistake.
So, take a few minutes before the end of the year to review yourself and your habits; and make the changes to help you effectively use your writing time. A small adjustment over the course of the year could give you many extra hours of writing time.
And as always, Write On!
This month's question: How do you streamline your writing time? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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Excerpt: Isn't it time to try something new? Each entry must give both 'why', and 'why not' sides of a prompt.
Excerpt: I heard a voice boom in my head.
Look in the mirror.
I lay there frozen. Terrified.
Excerpt: Prompt for December/ The Altar of Maleck Taos
Excerpt: I found a rose sitting on the grass one day. I picked her up, and saw her bleeding eyes. I asked: "What makes you cry?" For a long moment, she just sobbed. And then her lips parted, wider and wider. Her pained voice squeaked out:
"My thorns."
Excerpt: Post your goals for the world to see. Motivate yourself to accomplish them!
Excerpt: You probably won't believe me, but this is the story of how I had Thanksgiving dinner with a famous actress, a purse-snatcher, and a stray dog and her litter of eight.
Excerpt: Reviewing is a tool implemented by writers who want to help other authors improve their craft. Reviewing is also an essential tool for writers who want to improve their own writing. A review is not a simple statement of whether the reader liked the piece or not. A review should be helpful, encouraging, and honest.
Excerpt: He already knew which presents to steal. He'd delivered them just two days ago to the rich SOB who lived here.
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This month's question: How do you streamline your writing time? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: What is your edit weakness?
Danger Mouse  sent: MY editing weakness: Too much mind quibbling about verb forms. Is that a gerund or a present participle? Just that, can slow me down for hours. Dysgrammatophobia(:
Quick-Quill  replied: Punctuation, commas. I'm just too old to learn something I couldn't get as a kid. I love to write, I love it when people correct my grammar. I'm never offended. I know I can't get it right and rely on the goodness of others to fix my ignorance.
🌑 Darleen - QoD  answered: Commas and grammar!
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