Brain clutter

Do you work with someone who seems to spend more time getting ready to work than actually working? Someone with notebooks full of minutiae but few concrete results? Is her or his mind as cluttered with details, too? Jessica Stillman offers some ideas to reduce brain clutter.

Prompt: What happens when a brain-cluttered person faces a problem for which she or he is unprepared?

3 Tricks for a More Organized Mind | Inc.com

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/3-tricks-for-a-more-organized-mind.html

Book seers

For writers, the question is never resolved, is it? Do you plot or do you start filling pages until a project is done? Which is the better approach?
Obviously there is no right answer.
But, here’s another installment in the debate. See if any of the suggestions helps you through one of your projects.

To Pants or To Plot, That is the Question. Or is it? | writingwenches

http://writingwenches.com/2014/09/08/to-pants-or-to-plot-that-is-the-question-or-is-it/

Be true

Shakespeare told us “To thine own self be true.” Nick Horby’s advice to readers could be paraphrased, “To thine own taste be true.” He asserts reading should be fun, not enforced.
I don’t think he means no one should write literary novels. Clearly some people like them. Writers, and readers, should pick the genres they like. There is no “should” about what to write.

Can’t get into highbrow novels? Ditch them, says Nick Hornby – Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/11141627/Cant-get-into-highbrow-novels-Ditch-them-says-Nick-Hornby.html

Do some research

Not all of these tips for public relations professionals apply directly to other types of writing. But they are a reminder of a kind of research you may need from time to time.
They also could spark an idea for a character or a workplace that might fit something you’ve been thinking about.

How using the research skills you learned in college can pay off | Articles | Home

http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/4fd748a6-2800-4f24-b777-b18df036bf0e.aspx