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The free tools that I use to write every single day
How I keep everything organized.
When I first started writing on Medium, I didn’t know what I was doing. I had just started a blog about sobriety, I had some ideas for a couple of books, and I knew I wanted to explore this site.
But how do I manage all of that and still be sane? I wasn’t writing a lot before this so I didn’t have any methods or processes set up. Three months of writing on Medium and I’m finally starting to get it. Curation is happening more and I see my writing has improved. Even though I am writing for Medium primarily, I still write whatever I feel like at the moment. I’ll finish my draft for an article then explore a chapter in a book I’m writing. Or I redo a couple of things in my blog. I’m slowly getting a process set up that allows me to write every day and keep track of it all.
Google Drive
I made a Google account just for writing and that’s the only information in there. If I sign up for any newsletters in that account, they’re all about writing too. My Drive is organized in a very specific way.
There are folders for each area of writing that I’m doing. I have one for Medium, one for my blog, and ones for the book ideas that I had. For Medium, I have “in progress” articles then two folders called ‘Done’ and ‘Rework’. Once…
