How to beat the block

Stop Procrastinating and Start Writing

By award-winning author Claire Scobie

Sometimes it’s our busyness not our laziness that gets in the way. It’s all those things we do instead of writing: washing up, vacuuming, FaceBooking. The list is endless.

As an author and writing teacher, I often get asked how to deal with the dreaded ‘p’ word.

The procrastinator rears its head in all sorts of ways:

• You avoid starting the article despite the looming deadline.
• You spend ages researching a story and never writing it.
• Or the classic, you get three-quarters through and don’t finish.

Sound familiar? 

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