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A giant construction project disrupts the lives and the commute of many people who use the Washington DC (or Capital)  Beltway and the business routes between the Beltway and the Dulles International Airport. This same construction project also raises hope among many travelers that one day they can take the metro the full 30 miles [...]

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What could help you have an easier time starting to write and sticking with the writing? In the new book Willpower, psychologist Roy F. Baumeister and New York Times science writer John Tierney present research that willpower is limited, in part because you use the same resource for so many different things.  Since you can’t [...]

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You have a long-term goal—say, writing a dissertation or a book.  And the going gets tough.  This is one huge project. It’s a long haul—it may mean months or years of coming back to that same project. It’s been going on for quite a while.  Have you stuck with it?  Have you kept coming back [...]

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How do writers manage their time and produce writing, even if they are taking on a subject new to them and are raising young children?  When I learned of an upcoming interview with Gretchen Rubin, the writer of the New York Times best-seller Happiness Project, I was curious.  I had come across Gretchen Rubin’s blog, [...]

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How has your summer been so far?  Are you meeting your writing goals?  Or are you uneasy as you look at the calendar?   Unfortunately, the best of intentions at the beginning of summer can sometimes get waylaid.  If you have met your writing goals or if you are on track to meet them, congratulations and [...]

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A caller asked if I had ever coached someone who had become stalled on a house renovation project.  My answer was no, but what came to mind was how similar all big projects are.   How difficult it can be to keep going.  How crushing the project can become.  But it doesn’t have to be this [...]

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“Hey, where’s the beef?” yells the cranky, elderly woman at a fast food counter.  We see an enormous bun being poked at by two less cranky women.  Trying to say something positive, they agree that the bun is big:  “It’s a big fluffy bun. It’s a very big fluffy bun.”  But the all-business, take-no-prisoners woman says, [...]

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  Are you one of the millions of instructors or professors back in the classroom this September?   Are you also trying to meet a writing goal?   So how are you doing?  Keeping all of the balls in the air?  Maybe you’re like some of my coaching clients who have returned to their fall teaching jobs [...]

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Have you heard of a “showrunner”? Writers in the TV industry are now expected also to manage—or to have the skills and strengths that would allow them to manage.  According to John Wells, Writers Guild of America West president and writer/producer of E.R., Third Watch, and West Wing, it is virtually impossible to be just a writer [...]

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August can be a time of scrambling A friend who was taking her family on a trip to Europe was rushing to get everything done.  She said, “All I have to do is just get to the plane.”  I know what she means—what a wonderful feeling it is to settle in and stare into space, [...]

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