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On Productivity

September 19 / Haralambi Markov / Progress & Milestones

“Nothing’s Better Than a Good Plan,” Typed the Writer

Among friends I’m known more for my propensity for list-making and owning several large planners that I always scribble in. If you know me, you know I love a good plan and there’s a good reason for that.

At the end of August 2015, I felt exhausted, overheated, and unmoored in my life. Somehow, I was both in extraordinary motion at the tails of a move in a still unfamiliar city, a complete first novel draft and consistent freelance gigs, and not moving in any direction. The novel had fully consumed me and I had barely a few stories on submission, and even though I worked at all hours, this didn’t significantly affect my income. I was expending a lot of energy and had little to show for it. As the cliché goes, something had to change.

February 15 / Haralambi Markov / Guests

Authors Talk Shop: Carrie Cuinn on The Balancing Act of the Writer Carrie Cuinn

Circus performers don’t know how to walk a tightrope the first time they step onto the line. It takes years of trial and error, stepping clumsily onto wooden beams, and then taught ropes a foot off the ground, before graduating to a practice line hung over safety nets which they only traverse while wearing a harness. It’s a difficult thing to do, this balancing act, and everyone falls down the first several times they try. Read More Authors Talk Shop: Carrie Cuinn on The Balancing Act of the Writer Carrie Cuinn

January 11 / Haralambi Markov / Guests

The Dangers of Realizing You Love Your Job

So Harry was kind enough to ask me contribute something about writing and professionalism. I’m going to assume you know the three basics:

• The necessity of tweed jackets
• The essential nature of coffee shops
• The need to publicly hang those who hate on Scrivener

(I make fun, but I do in fact on a corduroy jacket that I wear to make myself feel more authorial. But don’t tell anyone because I’ll sound like an idiot).