Helping Writers Go from Unpublished to Published
Overwhelm can be paralyzing. And as I mentioned in my post “Don’t Be Afraid to Make Mistakes,” fear can be an underlying factor to that overwhelm.
Today I’d like to talk about a method that has helped me move through my fear and get things done. It’s called the Next Tiny Step (NTS) and was developed by New Zealander Richard Ralston.
Here’s how Richard describes it:
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Publishing a book can pile on the overwhelm. Let’s face it, there are a lot of things to be done besides writing the book.
Actually any project can seem overwhelming when we consider all that must be done and think we need to do it all at the same time.
A good method to deal with overwhelm is to break your project into smaller pieces. A supervisor I once had taught me this. She called it the swiss cheese method—poking little holes in the project one at a time.
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