Singer Erikah Badu's fantastic advice re writer's block: "Don't worry. When U have NO content to express the emotion U are feeling. It's not writer's block. It's just downloading time." ht Sheldon Levine, Sysomos Here's another singer who gets it.

Sheldon Levine at Sysomos used his company's social media analytics platform to see how often people mention writer's block online, and who is mentioning it. He got some interesting results, including: Of the 100 days I looked at, 54.7% of all the social mentions of writers block that I found ...

Terrific advice for all writers from Ph.D. student Nolanne Chang, reprinted with kind permission. Here's her blog. She sounds very empowered as she works to create a context that supports her writing productivity! - Hillary Previously in my posts I’ve outlined my feelings on the general structure of writing a ...

Scrivener is an excellent word processor for long-form writing in particular. It was designed from the ground up with writing efficiency in mind, and harkens back to the golden age of word processing when we had speedy and versatile tools like Wordstar, WordPerfect, Textra (my favorite!), etc. It's currently 50% ...

My dad was an intelligent, creative, and incredibly thwarted guy who was miserable most of his life. I suggested a few times that he get therapy, and the answer was always, "What do you think I am? Nuts?" And so he never got happier. So I'm really happy to read ...

This short movie contains many F-bombs but offers valid productivity advice: The movie's text is an F-bombed version of a letter from Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse, who struggled with self-doubt: Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, ...

We live in an age of perfectionist parenting, but one mom was smart enough to bow out: I wish my new-mommy-self had been familiar with the philosophy of the “good enough” mother. Donald Winnicott, a British psychoanalyst coined the term in the 1950′s while studying the interactions of mothers and ...