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Two Little-Known Writing Tools to Help You Get Unstuck

A version of this story on the Two Little-Known Writing  Tools to Help You Get Unstuck appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox; you’ll love it. * * * I don’t believe in Writer’s Block. House framers don’t get 2×4 Block. Dentists don’t get Root Canal Block. Accountants don’t get QuickBooks Block. (Babylonian accountants didn’t get Abacus Block, either lol.) But I do think Writer’s Wilderness is a thing (no inspiration for miles). And I subscribe to Writer’s Perfectionism (we stop before we start because we act as Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor to our sweet creative souls). And of course I am Team Captain of the League of Procrastination.   Writing is a matter of showing up to work, day after day, with the right tools and materials: the timber; the QuickBooks subscription; the tooth-grindy thing that […]

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8 Writing Tools I Use Every Day

What writing tools will help you produce your best work? Last week, two interviewers asked me about the tools I’d recommend for writing. One of them asked about writerly things I might covet the way some people do—like first editions of favorite books, or fountain pens, or antique Underwoods. (Not to be confused with other kinds of Underwoods.) I’m sentimental about a lot of things, but not about writing tools I use. Instead, I look for frictionless tools that ease the process, not complicate it. Part 6 of Everybody Writes is stuffed full of a bajillion tools that can help a content creator be more efficient and hale: But which are my faves? I used to think that tools alone held a kind of mysticism. When I was in middle school, my mother bought me my own IBM Selectric electric typewriter. It came in a hard plastic case with a

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