Writer's block, an owner's guide: Have You Scheduled Your Goofing-Off Time Today?

It’s a really good question, and Scott Baradell makes a good case for “research” as an essential part of the writing day. I’ll leave him to tell you about that. Me, I want to remind long-term readers about the Unschedule. But wait…, although I mentioned it here in something like 2004 I’m not sure if I ever really said what it was. So rather than have the embarrassment of Googling my own site to find out what’s on here, I’ll assume I didn’t say it.

Here’s what it is in one sentence. When you make up your calendar for the week, schedule the playtime and other downtime first and then fit the work around it.

I think so. The work will get done anyway, you know it will. The other stuff, not so much.

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