Étiquette : deadlines

Classé dans :

Anna Williams

Quick Topics: Procrastination and the Holidays

décembre 17, 2019 by Anna Williams | 3 commentaires sur Quick Topics: Procrastination and the Holidays

For a quick conversation starter today, let’s talk procrastination. “Procrastination is the assassination of motivation,” goes an unattributed quote. But is it? I’ve worked with business writers who, to the contrary, become more motivated the more they procrastinate. With the pressure of an imminent deadline and the looming threat of failure, inspiration strikes and creative […]

En savoir plus »

Marqués

Classé dans :

Virginia Durksen

Inner Editor: Tasks Without Edges

février 28, 2017 by Virginia Durksen | 5 commentaires sur Inner Editor: Tasks Without Edges

As the oft-paraphrased Leonardo da Vinci would have it, art [or poetry or writing or editing] is never finished, only abandoned. Writing is like a teenager. Eventually you have to send it out into the world to fend for itself. (Or should I say it’s like a young adult? Most North Americans freak out at […]

En savoir plus »

Marqués

Classé dans :

Anita Jenkins

Quick and Dirty

février 7, 2017 by Anita Jenkins | 20 commentaires sur Quick and Dirty

When I was following the editors’ chat group, I often found myself silently screaming, “Who cares?” Or perhaps not so silently. The conversation frequently dealt with moving the words around in a sentence to make it “perfect” or correcting a fine point of grammar or checking what Chicago says about the em dash. Most of […]

En savoir plus »

Marqués