Developing self discipline

Time management series Self-discipline Self-discipline can be considered a type of selective training, creating new habits ofthought, action, and speech toward improving yourself and reaching goals. Self-discipline can also be task oriented and selective.View self-discipline as positive effort, rather than one of denial. Schedule a small task for a given time of the day; Practice deliberate delaying. Schedule a particular task in the morning and once in the evening. Harness the power of routine. Instead of devoting a lot of hours one day, and none the other and then a few on an another day and so on, allocate a specific time period each day of the week for that task. Use self discipline to explore time management Time management can become an overwhelming task.When you do not have control over your own self, how can you control time? Advantage: As you control tasks, you build self-discipline.As you build self-discipline, you build time management. Maintain a self-discipline log book. Tricks:

Is this a common issue among people new to writing?(details inside) NaNoWriMo NaNoWriMo 2012 progress forms More on writing: (Articles Index) I'm currently putting together a how-to book containing updated and revised editions of all my articles on writing and publishing, plus a lot of new material. If you'd like to know more, follow me on Facebook and/or Twitter Every November, thousands of writers sign up for the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). (If you do sign up for NaNoWriMo, my profile is here) I'm the programmer behind yWriter5 (for Windows), but for Mac there's always the excellent Scrivener: My new middle-grade scifi novel was written during Nano 2010. Now, despite all those winning efforts I'm pretty bad when it comes to getting on with things: I procrastinate until just before the deadline, then go mad at the last minute to hand them in on time. It's simple enough - one line for each day of the month, with a daily count of 1700 words and a running total. The spreadsheets are editable, so you can change the word count and the starting date.

jimbutcher: The Great Swampy Middle Every writer runs into this, generally in every single book. The middle. It lurks between the beginning of your book and the exciting conclusion, and its mission in life is to Atreyu you right down into the yucky, mucky mire in order to prevent you from ever actually finishing. The Great Swampy Middle (or GSM) knows no fear, no mercy, no regret. And it laughs at you. The smug bastard. Okay. The middle of books is HARD, especially for beginning writers. It's like a swamp. Man. It's when an author starts getting lost that the book's middle becomes the Great Swampy Middle. Those of you who have written this much of a book already know exactly what I'm talking about. News flash: the reader is going to get that, and it's going to kill their fun. But most won't have that kind of patience. (That's bad.) But I say unto you, fear not. Here we go: The problem with GSMs is that most writers don't have a very good idea of exactly where they want to go. Same thing applies in the story. There. Jim