526: How to Write Faster, Better with Daphne Gray-Grant

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: PomodoroSoftware: Count WordsworthSoftware: Hemingway EditorTool: Star Trek: The Next Generation Engine Idling White NoiseBook: The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done by Piers SteelBook: The Now Habit by Neil FioreBook: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles DuhiggPrevious episode: 001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi AsgedomPrevious episode: 052: Mind Management for Productivity with David KadavyPrevious episode: 418: Separating Your Self-Worth from Your Productivity with Rahaf Harfoush Thank you, Sponsors!SideTrak. Work with two displays anywhere, anytime. Get 10% off at sidetrak.com/discount/awesome.Blinkist. Learn more, faster with book summaries you can read or listen to in 15 minutes at blinkist.com/awesome  View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep526 

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