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Julie Bestry

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Julie Bestry is a Certified Professional Organizer® and president of Best Results Organizing in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In her previous career in the fast-paced, detail-oriented, and wacky world of television broadcasting, Julie developed a passion for inspiring good organizing skills and systems with patience and humor. Julie particularly loves eliminating paper chaos and motivates her overwhelmed residential, home office, and small business clients with the motto, "Don't apologize. Organize!"

In addition to helping her clients save time and money, reduce stress, and increase productivity in a guilt-free environment, Julie is often interviewed by area media and presents teleclasses and workshops. She is the author of 57 Secrets for Organiz
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Julie Bestry Don't wait. Write. Find writing prompts, and write. If you write non-fiction, use the writing prompt to come up with 5 different disparate answers to …moreDon't wait. Write. Find writing prompts, and write. If you write non-fiction, use the writing prompt to come up with 5 different disparate answers to any given question and flesh it out. If you write fiction, take advantage of "morning pages" even if you don't actually write in the morning, and use writing prompts to open your mind, shake out the cobwebs, and get started. It's amazing how much just writing ANYthing will give you content you can later use when you're ready to actually follow an outline and write.

A writer writes. We're all guilty of procrastinating, but reading about writing (and editing and publishing) is not writing.(less)
Julie Bestry Secret #46 in my book, 57 Secrets for Organizing Your Small Business, is actually all about overcoming writer's block, so I could fill up a lot of spa…moreSecret #46 in my book, 57 Secrets for Organizing Your Small Business, is actually all about overcoming writer's block, so I could fill up a lot of space on this topic. But I'll I share two my favorite ideas:

1) Write to an imaginary pen pal. Sometimes, you know too much about a topic to get a handle on where to start. Begin with "Dear Pal, I am trying to write my [article, book, etc.] It's generally about [overarching idea]. I'm trying to bring together [list one to five major categories]. For example…" and then just free-write and talk about the subject. Don't worry about grammar or fret about logical connections. Just concentrate on creating understanding. Because it's not the monumental THING (book, project, etc.), but merely telling a random someone about the thing, that omnipresent fear of failure -- what usually keeps our brains in a tizzy -- dissipates.

2) Do nothing. Seriously. A whole LOT of nothing. Set a timer for 30 minutes, and block all distracting stimuli. Face a blank pad or empty screen, but don't write. You may have to sit on your hands, but do not, under any circumstances, write. You have no idea how slowly time passes when you're staring at nothing, forbidden to create. Your thoughts may wander a bit, but by the end of the half-hour, your brain will be fairly bursting with ideas and you'll be chomping at the bit to start writing. (less)
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Happy National Time Management Month! There’s an irony that this observation takes place during the shortest month of the year. It’s as if someone said, “Hey, our problem is that we never feel like we have enough time to do what needs to be done. Let’s honor that challenge — with the fewest possible days […]

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I love Connie Willis, and within very few exceptions, I almost feel as though her books are written just for me (Lincoln's Dreams notwithstanding).

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This isn't the kind of work I'd usually read in that, while it's speculative fiction and ostensibly giving a nod to time travel (as it's part of this series, The Time Traveler's Passport), it's a little darker than what I'd prefer.

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I love Connie Willis, and within very few exceptions, I almost feel as though her books are written just for me (Lincoln's Dreams notwithstanding).

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Lemony Snicket
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”
Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

Sydney  Smith
“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”
Sydney Smith

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
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“The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.”
Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh review: or Critical journal

Graham Greene
“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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