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Not Later. Write Now
150 students
Not Later. Write Now
How to Concentrate and Write, Even When Everything Around You Won't Shut Up
Created bySusan Bachner
Last updated 8/2013
English
What you'll learn
- By the end of the course, you will learn how to concentrate better, eliminate procrastination, and focus on the one writing project you are most enthusiastic about.
- In this course you will learn specific techniques and strategies to block out common distractions, have more writing discipline, and harvest your mental and phsyical energy to your best advantage for writing.
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Course content
1 section • 8 lectures • 36m total length
Requirements
- Before starting the course, please have a notebook and pen to take notes in, and if possible a small paper date book to write in.
Description
NOT LATER, WRITE NOW! : HOW TO CONCENTRATE AND WRITE, EVEN WHEN EVERYTHING AROUND YOU WON’T SHUT UP
Developed and Taught By Susan Bachner
It’s a common 21ST century complaint. You’re dying to start writing your novel, your screenplay, your “Tribute to Condiments Around the World” blog. But you can’t. When you’re at work, you have to be at work. When you’re at home; there are roommates, spouses, relatives. They’re talking, walking around, watching TV, breathing too loud.
You’ve tried sitting in Starbucks but there are people talking, doors opening and closing, and loud coffee machines whirring.You try to listen to music to drown out the world. But that just distracts you, too.
And wherever you are, there are always people texting you, emailing you, face booking you, calling you. How can you avoid them? So you find yourself putting off your writing for yet another day.
Yes, there are places that charge you money to rent a little cubicle where everyone agrees to be quiet, but that’s expensive. Plus you’re taking the time to travel someplace else, when you have a perfectly good desk waiting for you at home. It seems like nothing works and time is slipping away while your work remains unwritten.
There is an answer: NOT LATER, WRITE NOW!: HOW TO CONCENTRATE AND WRITE, EVEN WHEN EVERYTHING AROUND YOU WON’T SHUT UP.
You'll learn strategies to :
* Stop procrastination before it starts
* Concentrate in all kinds of circumstances, even bad ones
* Learn concentration exercises specifically for writing
* Stop sabotaging yourself, wasting time bouncing around different project ideas, and find that one idea you're "into"
* Capitalize on your own enthusiasm
* Make the best use of your free time and physical energy
* Create a custom schedule for writing that will make it easy to stick to.
Susan Bachner knows the secrets to concentrating and writing in not ideal conditions, and has the results to show for it. She has previously helped private clients learn to concentrate better and fulfill their writing dreams, and is now is opening these possibilities up to even more writers with this class.
A former Senior Editor at McGraw Hill (where she once had to concentrate on her work while a nearby coworker continually slurped coffee for hours on end ), published author, and screenwriter with representation in Hollywood, she has put together strategies for developing an inner world of peace and concentration anywhere and anytime.
When watching the lessons, please have handy a notebook to take notes in, and if possible a small datebook ( even if you usually keep track of your schedule in your phone or computer, it will be good to have a physical datebook to write in for the purpose of forming your writing schedule.)
Looking forward to helping you get on the road to writing what you want, whenever you want.
NOT LATER, WRITE NOW!
Who this course is for:
- This course is intended for anyone who truly wants to write, but finds themselves unable to accomplish what they want because of distractions, scheduling problems, and concentration and procrastination issues.