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Manage your time

There’s a bigger lesson here.

David Gane
David Gane

Along with yesterday’s post of needing time to write, it also means that you need to manage your time wisely.

It’s a lot easier to write something 1 or 2 hours a day over a week than it is to write it all in 10 hours in one day.

Of course, we all understand this—yet many of us still do it.

So the real lesson here isn’t about managing time (although it still is a little) but to listen to ourselves and be responsible in working towards the things we want.

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Co-writer of the Shepherd and Wolfe young adult mysteries, the internationally award-winning series, and teacher of storytelling and screenwriting.

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