This is K.M. Lylint and you are listening to the 436 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Common Wisdom has always enforced that it's best to do the most distasteful things on your

daily schedule first to make sure you don't put them off forever.

But after the suggestion in a recent interview that productivity is actually enhanced by the happy

buzz we get when we do the best stuff first, I decided to give it a try.

And I got to say I'm impressed because mornings are always the hardest part of the day for me.

I've tried for a long while to make them as pleasant as possible, which is part of why I always do my writing in the morning.

But I've also tried adjusting other parts of my daily schedule to let me do the most interesting of my secondary projects early in the afternoon rather than gritting through the more mundane routine stuff right away.

By saving the routine stuff I dislike until later in the day, it's both made me more productive and less likely to procrastinate.

It's also made it easier to do these stuff I dislike.

So, however your schedule allows, I definitely recommend giving it a try.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast.

Don't let anyone tell you how to write.

Eight tips for learning responsibly.

So my mom tells me I'm going to put myself out of business with that title.

But seriously, I mean it. Don't let anybody tell you how to write. Not me, not Stephen King, not Writers Digest, not Aristotle. This is actually a huge problem among writers. I know because I've spent

my own fair share of time walking that dusty crowded path marked with prominent neon billboards that flash assurance the

crowded path marked with prominent neon billboards that flash assurances of the right way.

It adjoins a shortcut to success and is littered with historical tourist hotspots

promising you're about to walk in the very

footsteps of such idols as Jane Austin, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neil Hurston, Madeline Langel,

Dean Coontons, Margot

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