526: How to Write Faster, Better with Daphne Gray-Grant
Description
Writing Coach Daphne Gray-Grant offers practical tips to accelerate and improve your writing.
You'll Learn:
1) The biggest mistake people make when writing
2) Why outlines don’t work—and what does
3) Top do’s and don’ts for engaging writing
About Daphne:
Daphne Gray-Grant grew up in newspapers: her parents owned a struggling weekly where she worked from the age of 16. Eventually, she left the family business to become a senior editor at a major metropolitan daily. After the birth of her triplet children in 1994, she became a communications consultant, and writing and editing coach. Author of the books 8 1/2 Steps to Writing Faster, Better and Your Happy First Draft, Daphne has been coaching writing and blogging since 2006.
- Daphne’s website: PublicationCoach.com
Resources mentioned in the show:
- Technique: Pomodoro
- Software: Count Wordsworth
- Software: Hemingway Editor
- Tool: Star Trek: The Next Generation Engine Idling White Noise
- Book: The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done by Piers Steel
- Book: The Now Habit by Neil Fiore
- Book: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- Previous episode: 001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom
- Previous episode: 052: Mind Management for Productivity with David Kadavy
- Previous episode: 418: Separating Your Self-Worth from Your Productivity with Rahaf Harfoush
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View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep526
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