Learn more about writing with this collection
How to find purpose and meaning in life
How to cultivate gratitude
Techniques for managing negative thoughts
Use placeholders
Your goal is to keep the writing flow going. Whenever you reach a point where you don't know what words to use, how to connect paragraphs, or how to express an idea, leave a placeholder and move on.
The placeholder can be anything that stands out e.g. TODO, TK, !!!.
37
151 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Don't edit as you write
Editing slows you down and distracts you from actually writing. Postpone editing for after you have a first complete draft.
37
157 reads
The writing process
Every piece of writing goes through five stages:
- Brainstorm — Come up with ideas that support your topic.
- Outline — Organize the ideas in a clear and logical structure.
45
258 reads
Outline as you brainstorm
Combine the pre-writing steps and organize ideas as you find them.
Use Deepstash to survey existing ideas on your topic and quickly find the ones you're interested in. This is also where your stashed ideas come in handy.
39
174 reads
Write what you already know
Start writing the parts that you've already worked out in your mind. This builds momentum and helps you determine what to write in the other sections.
36
168 reads
CURATED FROM
CURATED BY
Related collections
More like this
Building effective mentoring relationships
Mentoring requires having a clear idea of how the sessions themselves are to happen.
Make sure that from the very beginning you communicate to your mentee exactly how all is going to take place: how often, where, how, etc. Get to know the other and use all the means you dispose of in orde...
Practice deliberately to bring on more Flow
Flow is dependent on finding that sweet spot between your skills and the challenge at hand. Having some mastery and knowing how to use it is necessary to reach flow state.
You can achieve this by not just going through the motions of an activity, but having a specific, analyzable ...
Procrastination and how to combat it
Procrastination usually happens when you reach a difficult point and find it uncomfortable to keep going.
The Pomodoro technique is effective in combatting this. This is where you work for 25 minutes, then take a break for 5 minutes.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates