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5 Startling Productivity Secrets for Serious Scribes

By Jonathan Ball News, Podcast, Workflow

Unfortunately, most writers see themselves as artists. However, writing is not art. Literature is art, but writing is manual labour. If you want to create great art, you have to sit down at your desk and push all thoughts of that goal from your mind. Instead of the hoped-for product of your work, you need to […]

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