Get Organized, Get Published!: 225 Ways to Make Time for Success - Hardcover

Aslett, Don; Cartaino, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582970033 ISBN 13: 9781582970035

Publisher: Marsh Creek Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Provides exercises and strategies designed to help future writers eliminate distractions, organize writing efforts, use time more efficiently, and develop ideas for stories in any situtation.

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Review

Before settling down to write about this book, I checked my e-mail. I searched for a vintage pedestal sink on eBay. I looked at the weather forecast for the weekend, and I glanced at my town's electronic message board. I even contemplated cleaning off my desk. And all the while, I imagined Don Aslett, in his ordered universe, typing away at one of his 40 books-in-progress. Aslett is best known as the author of Clutter's Last Stand, published in paperback in 1984. In Get Organized, Get Published!, Aslett, along with co-author Carol Cartaino, brings his theories of efficiency to bear on the writer's life. If you de-clutter every aspect of your life, he reasons, you'll have a lot more time to write. Sleep less, eat more simply, eschew vanity, and convince your plumber to give you an actual appointment time and you will have more time for your writing. Streamlining your belongings, exercise regime, and work area ("out, route, doubt, sprout" is Aslett's mantra) will buy you even more time. For Get Organized, Get Published!, Aslett and Cartaino offer advice on creating a writing agenda and a "getting published action plan"; they'll help you organize your workplace, research, market attack, career, even the writing process itself. It's hard to imagine when Aslett has any fun (crossword puzzles, videos, chats with the neighbors, and the like all take time away from writing, you know), but considering that--as quoted here--the average American will spend 12 years watching television, eight months opening junk mail, and one year looking for misplaced items, it's hard not to sit up, listen, and get writing. --Jane Steinberg

About the Author

Don Aslett is the author of 28 books that have sold nearly three million copies worldwide. He is a well-known specialist in the field of organization. Carol Cartaino collaborates on all of Aslett's books as a co-writer and editor. She has edited nonfiction books for thirty-two years, including ten years as editor-in-chief of Writer's Digest Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marsh Creek Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1582970033
• ISBN 13: 9781582970035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304