Getting the Words Down: Tricks and Techniques for Productivity
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Every writer I know battles to get words down on the page. This short article gives some tricks and techniques I've used over a lifetime of writing. I hope you find them helpful!
This article first appeared in WQ, the newsletter of the Queensland Writers Centre, in February 2014
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