uhh… I think you should include an eleventh tip: have a good editor or a dictionary by your side.

you write: “However, writing doesn’t have to be a *tortuous* experience akin to banging your head against the wall.”

I think you mean “torturous” experience. This is a common mistake, but someone who is teaching how to write should definitely know better!

Or…not

I make a brief in my spanish blog of course with a link to yours and to Tejvan blog:

Trucos de productividad para escritores.

Keep blogging, thank you very much.

I buy lots of notebooks in several different sizes because I like having a notebook with me in my purse or in the car to write whenever the mood strikes or the words start to flow. Sometimes, I will sit down and write a whole article in one sitting. Sometimes it stretches out over a week or two. Sometimes I get just a title or an idea that I want to get written down to come back to later. I will sometimes just start writing. Sometimes I post the finished result and sometimes the words are there but for some reason it just doesn’t feel quite right at the time. I may or may not come back and finish it at some future date. These were great tips that you gave. Thanks to Stephen Hopson for sending me here.