{"id":1285,"date":"2014-11-11T14:09:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2014-12-17T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T20:09:50","slug":"the-habits-of-highly-productive-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/the-habits-of-highly-productive-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Habits of Highly Productive Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rachel Toor states, \u201cThere are no tricks to make [writing]\u00a0easier, just habits and practices you can develop to get it done.\u201d \u00a0The following are habits that Ms. Toor\u00a0compiled from her study of various well-known writers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They reject the notion of \u201cwriter\u2019s block\u201d the way others shun gluten.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They don\u2019t overtalk their projects.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They believe in themselves and their work.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They know that a lot of important stuff happens when they\u2019re not \u201cworking.\u201d<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They\u2019re passionate about their projects.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They know what they\u2019re good at.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They read a lot, and widely.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They know how to finish a draft.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They work on more than one thing at once.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They leave off at a point where it will be easy to start again.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They don\u2019t let themselves off the hook.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">They know there are no shortcuts, magic bullets, special exercises, or incantations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the full explanation of each habit, <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Habits-of-Highly\/150053\/\" target=\"_blank\">please click here. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Toor states, \u201cThere are no tricks to make [writing]\u00a0easier, just habits and practices you can develop to get it done.\u201d \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-kJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}