Expert advice to deal with work-from-home procrastination
7:28 am It occurred to me that work-from-home has always been the norm for writers. So I wondered how seasoned professionals handle all the WFH temptations to procrastinate. Are there lessons for the rest of us? I discovered right off that writers, even famous ones, are huge procrastinators. Megan McArdle, a well-known writer herself, wrote an article for the Atlantic called “Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators.” She asked “a fairly famous colleague” how he managed to regularly produce 8,000-word features. “Well,” he said, “first, I put it off for two or three weeks. The...