battling writer's procrastination: the art of the start, part two

Get things off your mind.

One of the smarter things I did this year was buy David Allen's book Getting Things Done. Six months later, I actually read it. Allen is a wise dude, and a very good writer, and I can't recommend his books enough. But that's not the point.


The point has to do with Allen's observations about multitasking. Multitasking, he says, is a myth (and here, by the way, is a study to back that up). The brain can only concentrate on one thing at a time. (People who appear to multitas