5 on Writing (4)
5 On Writing is an occasional series of 5 Links of Interest.
Another five interesting links out there from the writing world. I have some New Years reading for writers - productivity tools within four out of five of these.
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2009 Goals Planned in a Dashboard Mind Map
Today I spent a fruitful day planning out all my writing and other resolutions into some 2009 goals and objectives, and setting them into a series of mindmaps. Together they make up a Life Dashboard MindMap.
For 2009 I have several personal goals, some large family tasks (such as adopting another child into the family), [...]
All I Want for New Years is a Moleskine
New Years greetings to all out there.
This is being written at 7pm on the New Years Eve, with another five hours to go until the next year. My home country of New Zealand clocked over into 2009 eight hours ago. As I’m tired, I wish a little that I had. But we’ll see if [...]
The Components of a Writing Business Plan
Firstly, I’m not a business plan writer by any way, shape or form. I used to work in I.T. and was a very good writer of Test Plans and Strategies, of juggling budgets (which weren’t really mine) with bodies, and facilitating a compromise over the overall business product sales goals with the time given to [...]
Top Ten New Years Resolutions for Writers
Happy New Year and a prosperous 2009 to all the writers and their families!
It’s that time of year again - the time of good hope, and even bigger intentions. Below I’ve wound up the best New Years resolutions for Writers I could find - sources of others are listed below. Many are slightly more [...]
The Yearly Review
2008 in My Writing Life
Before I go off on a lovely sparkly New Years goals kick, to be fair to myself - I have to work out what of this last year worked, and what could have worked better. That’s how I get to my goals of next year, right?
Right.
Review then…
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The Christmas Book Box
Merry Christmas and Seasonal Greetings to All!
Here in my family we have a few Christmas traditions, but one of my favourites is the Christmas Book Box. This was started a few years ago, for my daughter, who still couldn’t read at that point, but has been brought up being read to since she was [...]
A Muse or a Split Personality?
I recently noticed a brand new blog out there on the topic of writing. Entitled Write for Your Life, the author of the blog is a writer from Sheffield, England, named Iain Broome. The blog itself promises some interesting discussions if the first post is anything to go by.
Iain’s first post is entitled, [...]
Twelve Days of Christmas Gifts for the Writer
Gifts, Gifts, Gifts. In many ways, the family with a writer within has an easy time of it when the holiday season comes along. All you pretty much need to do is offer some more books, or writer’s supplies.
Gifts for the writer don’t necessarily have to be expensive but can be very thoughtful. [...]
Top Ten Christmas Wishes for the Writer
Christmas and Seasonal wishes to all. Here’s my personal Christmas wish list for the writer within. Following up, I’ll have a Twelve Days of Christmas Gifts for The Writer and some New Years Resolutions also. Oh, and an actual Business (Action) Plan to make some of these so-called wishes or resolutions come true.
