Seven Steps for Becoming a More Productive Writer


	Seven Steps for Becoming a More Productive Writer

corkant

7-20-2008 8:04 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3900d8a9-4596-4815-8806-3cbd28602aef/B653F3D7-E87C-44F7-A910-A6634E9DD989/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202008/full-seven-steps.html" href="http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202008/full-seven-steps.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.changemag.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202008/full-seven-steps.html"><SPAN class="">Seven Steps for Becoming a More Productive Writer</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202008/full-seven-steps.html"><DIV><SPAN class="dropcap">S</SPAN>amuel Johnson’s oft-quoted saying that “no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money” supports the widespread belief that writing is so intrinsically unrewarding that it requires a powerful external incentive to overcome one’s reluctance to get on with it. Most academics do not face the strong and immediate pressure to write in order to get money to buy this week’s groceries or pay next month’s rent. And yet most—from junior faculty struggling to win tenure to presidents writing letters to their boards—must write in order to reap the profession’s rewards.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B653F3D7-E87C-44F7-A910-A6634E9DD989/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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