Sunday, June 10, 2012
Week 5 -- Writing Shorter and Shorter
May I reiterate that WRITING SHORTER MAKES YOUR JOB EASIER. I took a few depos this week, and one last week -- the first depos I've taken since January. I've been full-time CART during the semester, and doing depos only during school breaks. And when I did these depos, I could tell a VAST difference between January and June, since I've hardcore worked at shortening my writing in between. When you write shorter, you write cleaner. When you write cleaner, your rough drafts are cleaner. When your rough drafts are cleaner, your editing goes quicker. When your editing goes quicker, you get the job done quicker. When you turn in a job quicker, the invoice gets submitted to the attorneys quicker, and HOPEFULLY they pay quicker, but, well, sometimes they don't :o) Regardless, you can then take on more work without feeling as overwhelmed, or you'll have more time in the day to relax or play video games or drink or whatever it is you fancy.
Write shorter, folks.
Oh yeah -- what I've done this week. Starting to keep up more on the 300ish Q&A. Literary's increased a bit. So progress is slight, but slight progress is progress.
(posting this on Sunday since I'm at an all-day job tomorrow)
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rough draft,
short writing,
The Impossible Goal
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