How to Be Awesome at Your Job18 Dec 2019

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.

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— 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: Pomodoro

• Software: Count Wordsworth

• Software: Hemingway Editor

• Tool: Star Trek: The Next Generation Engine Idling White Noise

• Book: The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done by Piers Steel

• Book: The Now Habit by Neil Fiore

• Book: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

• Previous episode: 001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom

• Previous episode: 052: Mind Management for Productivity with David Kadavy

• Previous episode: 418: Separating Your Self-Worth from Your Productivity with Rahaf Harfoush

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