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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Vocabulary and Text Notes
Disclaimer
About the Author
Chapter 1
Section 1.1 Procrastination is Disempowerment
Section 1.2 Procrastination vs. Problem Solving
Section 1.3 The Seven Secrets of the Prolific
Section 1.4 Procrastination’s Quintuple Punch
Section 1.5 Block vs. Spaghetti Snarl
Section 1.6 Who’s on Your Path? The Woodland Trail Metaphor of Writing
Section 1.7 Write Out Your Snarl
Section 1.8 Procrastination’s Duplicitous Strategies
Section 1.9 Two Commonly Overlooked Barriers
Section 1.10 Procrastination’s Denial of Self: Selling Out and Stalling Out
Section 1.11 The Heart of Procrastination
Chapter 2
Section 2.1 Perfectionists Hold Unrealistic Definitions of Success and Punish Themselves Harshly for the Inevitable Failures.
Section 2.2 Perfectionists are Grandiose
Section 2.3 Perfectionists Prioritize Product Over Process
Section 2.4 Perfectionists Over-Rely on External Rewards and Measures of Success
Section 2.5 Perfectionists Deprecate the Ordinary Processes of Creativity and Career-Building
Section 2.6 Perfectionists Overidentify with Their Work
Section 2.7 Perfectionism’s Toolkit
Section 2.8 Perfectionism’s Origins I: Social and Cultural Causes
Section 2.9 Perfectionism’s Origins II: Trauma and “Situational Perfectionism”
Section 2.10 Cultivate a Mindset of Compassionate Objectivity
Section 2.11 Develop a Habit of Abundant Rewards and No Punishments
Section 2.12 Compassionate Objectivity as an Antidote to Fear of Failure and Success
Section 2.13 Use the Three Productivity Behaviors
Section 2.14 Build Your Capacity for Fearless Writing via Timed Writing Exercises
Section 2.15 Choose the Right Project(s)
Section 2.16 Moving Forward: Your Post-Perfectionism Writing Career
Section 2.17 Anticipate Plateaus and Backsliding
Section 2.18 Other Antiperfectionist Techniques
Chapter 3
Section 3.1 So You Want to Run a Marathon...
Section 3.2 More Lessons from the Marathoners
Section 3.3 Resources for Ambitious Writing
Section 3.4 What the Prolific Know
Section 3.5 Generous Writers vs. Snobs and Obfuscators
Section 3.6 Your Hardware and Software
Section 3.7 Your Writing Space and Furniture
Section 3.8 Your Family
Section 3.9 Mentors and Writers’ Communities
Section 3.10 How to Work With Mentors
Section 3.11 Critique Partners, Workshoppers, Alpha Readers, Beta Readers, and Your Audience
Section 3.12 Other Key Community Members
Chapter 4
Section 4.1 The Crucial Importance of Time Management
Section 4.2 The Five Foundational Principles of Time Management
Section 4.3 Time-Management Principle #1: Time is the Most Valuable Resource
Section 4.4 Time-Management Principle #2: Always Strive to Invest, Not Spend, Time
Section 4.5 The Other Time-Management Principles
Section 4.6 The Dire Fate of the Poor Time Manager vs. the Joy and Fulfillment of the Good Time Manager
Section 4.7 The Time-Management Process, Step 1: Budgeting
Section 4.8 Be a Specialist/Don’t Overgive
Section 4.9 Problems Related to Overgiving: Workaholism and Codependency; Email Overload; and Coping with Fame
Section 4.10 The Rest of the Time-Management Process
Section 4.11 Saying No, Delegation, and Cooperative Problem-Solving
Chapter 5
Section 5.1 Tempo and Your Need for Speed
Section 5.2 Use a Freewriting-Based Process for All Your Work, and Do Many Drafts
Section 5.3 Develop a Smooth Writing Process; Minimize Interruptions
Section 5.4 Write Nonlinearly; Leverage Your Project’s Easy Parts
Section 5.5 Work Backwards in the Piece
Section 5.6 Show Your Work Frequently; Read It Aloud
Section 5.7 Learn to Write on the Fly
Section 5.8 Achieve (and Enjoy!) Mastery
Section 5.9 Other Tempo-Building Techniques
Chapter 6
Section 6.1 The Problem with Invisibility and Isolation
Section 6.2 How the Public (Including Your Family!) Sees Writers and Writing
Section 6.3 How Some Highly Successful Writers See Less-Successful Ones
Section 6.4 The Glorious Truth About Writers and Writing
Section 6.5 The Importance of Overcoming Ambivalence
Section 6.6 How to Come Out as a Writer
Section 6.7 Pervasive Deprecations
Section 6.8 Coping with Difficult Questions
Chapter 7
Section 7.1 Rejection or Harsh Criticism Can Foment a Block
Section 7.2 Context Counts
Section 7.3 Minimizing the Odds of Traumatic Rejection
Section 7.4 Coping With Routine Rejection: Taking Your Power Back
Section 7.5 Coping With Traumatic Rejection
Section 7.6 Writing on the Internet
Chapter 8
Section 8.1 One Writer’s Career
Section 8.2 More Disempowerment
Section 8.3 The Bad Deal for Writers That Is Traditional Publishing
Section 8.4 Self-Publishing: The Only Way to Go
Section 8.5 Disempowered vs. Empowered Careers
Section 8.6 Empowered Careers Begin with a Clear Vision and a Plan
Section 8.7 Two Key Questions
Section 8.8 Marketing (and Sales)
Section 8.9 Another Writer’s Story
Epilogue
Appendix
Section A.1 Why, Why, Why?
Section A.2 The Rules of the Game
Section A.3 A Symposium on Academic Oppression
Section A.4 Advice for Graduate Students I: Managing Your Relationship with Your Advisor
Section A.5 Advice for Graduate Students II: When Researching and Writing Your Thesis
Section A.6 Regarding Academic Couples
Section A.7 Advice for Advisors
Section A.8 Some Unvarnished Thoughts on MFA Programs and the “Literary-Industrial Complex”
Section A.9 MFA Programs Cost Too Much
Section A.10 Don’t Procrastinate by Going to School, or Staying in School
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