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What next action?
fillanzea | Oct 27 2005
Sometimes you reach a point with a project where you can't say that there's a single "next action." Or rather, if you can isolate a discrete "next action," it's one that's going to take several months. One example: Writing a novel requires research, and so on, but there's a time when you sit down to write. What's your "next action" there? Write chapter one? But there's only an arbitrary mark dividing it from chapter two. Or another: One of my projects is advancing my level of Japanese, and as part of that, I'm working on 6 characters per day. It'll take me several months to get through that, but every time I finish for the day, my "next action" is still exactly what it was before. Is there something obvious that I'm missing? 7 Comments
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 I'm no writer but I...Submitted by mars on October 28, 2005 - 7:42am.
I'm no writer but I know that the first sentence or two of a novel can make or break it so 'write opening lines' would be a next action. 'Write x number of words' could be a next action if focus is a problem. 'Revise paragraph 2' could be a next action . Like the poster above said, it's about breaking the tasks down to their smallest actions in order to keep the flow and organisation to achieve the sum of the parts. » POSTED IN:
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