Writing to Deadline

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People often ask me how I find time to write.

I always reply, “I would never get anything written if it were not for deadlines.”

Donald Murray's Writing to Deadline helps me make sure I never miss one, or at least I rarely do.

In it, he tells this story:

 

“I am told that the term [deadline] comes from an actual line drawn outside of a prison's walls. When prisoners crossed the deadline they were shot. Dead. And that's the way I feel about deadlines. They must be met or I will face professional death” (p.17).