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go the way you thought they would. Use your accountability partner as a sounding board for your ideas, or to discuss the things that are holding you back from finishing your writing at the moment. Sometimes personal dilemmas will slow down your writing, and a good accountability partner can help you understand why you've having problems with your productivity and get you back on your feet. Writing can be a very discouraging business, especially if you're feeling behind with your projects. An accountability partner can help keep your spirits up, and your deadlines met.

5) Refine older writing projects. You will inevitably have days when you do not feel inspired to get new things written. You will stare at your notebook or word processor and nothing will come to you. These days are frustrating for all of us, but they do not have to hinder your productivity. Use these times to go through older writing projects and give them touch ups. If you've got a short story that's been rejected from several publishers, take it out again and start editing it. If you've got a poem that you never felt was complete, take it out and tinker with it. Not only will your literature improve, you will gain inspiration as you go. Your momentary lack of inspiration will pass as long as you keep your mind focused on your work.

6) Freewrite. This is exceptionally useful when your productivity is low strictly because you are stuck on a problem. When you freewrite, you give yourself a timelimit of anywhere between fifteen minutes and thirty, and you deliberately keep writing without pause for that entire time. If you sit down to freewrite with a problem in mind, you will be able to work out several solutions to that problem as long as you keep your fingers on the keyboard, or your pen to the paper. Some days you will have problems writing because personal issues will create a block. Your mind will continually revert to whatever is going on in your life, instead of the bit of dialogue that you are supposed to be writing. Freewrite about your personal problem and let it all get out of your system. I like to think of freewriting as the "ummmm" that punctuates the sentences of people who are trying to think of the appropriate word or phrase. Their vocal chords are continuing to move, and they are allowing their brain enough time to come up with something. Keep your literary vocal chords moving, and your brain will fill in the gaps.

7) Reward yourself. Sometimes your productivity is low simply because

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