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I was excited to see the newly released French version of outlining your novel this week.

Foreign versions are always kind of a little thrill.

So far, some of my books have been published in French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean with Russian on the way.

French is the only one I can kind of sort of read, so that was extra fun this time.

Anyway, if you'd rather read outlining your novel in French or any of the other mentioned languages rather than English, now you can.

Anyway now I hope you enjoyed this week's episode how to get stuff done as a writer or how this I

N.J leverages her extroverted thinking.

Most days as a writer, I wake up excited

to tackle everything on my to-do list.

My big plans always include rocking my daily writing session. I'm always like,

today is the day I'm going to write 5,000 words in one sitting.

Ra. And then writing time rolls around and I'm still flitzing around the house,

weeding the garden, finishing my shower, getting my snack ready.

So I'm usually about 15 minutes late and then I sit there and I fiddle with that one

button on my keyboard that's always falling off or I decide I need to go clip that hang nail on my thumb or I pop open a research

file to check something and get sucked into reading it for 30 minutes.

In short, figuring out how to get stuff done as a writer is sometimes the single hardest

part of the job.

We all have personal weaknesses that succor us into wasting time over and over again.

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