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. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep526 for clickable versions of the links below. — 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 — THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • SideTrak. Work with two displays anywhere, anytime. Get 10% off at sidetrak.com/discount/awesome. • Blinkist. Learn more, faster with book summaries you can read or listen to in 15 minutes at blinkist.com/awesome See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .