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Tasty, tasty boundaries

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Tasty, tasty boundaries

I love…

…forcing myself to hammer out my 750-word acting columns in an hour. Good exercise for me, the wordy procrastinator, and makes me feel better about doing it for such a ridiculously low sum.

…doing speeches at Toastmasters b/c they’re total time nerds. Great practice.

…the audio version of Twitter constraints, Jott. Plus the amazing transcriptions that come back, no matter how slowly I speak into the phone.

…coming up with the sidebar items for my newsletter, my media recos of the month. It’s fun trying to be pithy and persuasive.

I did not much like writing TV and radio commercials, but I have to say, it was great training, learning to write in :30 and :60 (or even :10 and :15) increments.

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