Anytime you are given a writing assignment whether it's for school, work, business, or even a power point presentation, be assured that your writing assignment will come with a deadline. Your greatest writing success will come when you apply these five proven techniques to your writing project. So what happens if you don't have a plan? Here's what happens when you don't have some sort of realistic plan: you are guaranteed to get writer's stress which may include a horrendous headache!

Five Tried and True Ways to Successfully Meet Those Writing Deadlines:

1. Plan ahead: It's just like when you go on a trip. When you plan to go on a vacation, visit family, or even go on a business trip, you go with a destination in mind. You wouldn't just hop in your car and head out not knowing which way is north, south, east, or west would you? You head in the direction of your goal.

2. Gather all your materials before you start: Getting organized before starting any project is very helpful. It gets your thinking processes in motion for the big picture. Clear out a specific area for working on your writing project by eliminating clutter and other items that have nothing to do with your writing assignment.

3. Always save, save, save, or backup your writing assignment: You've invested a lot of time and energy into your project and the last thing you need is something to go wrong and you lose your work. This is very important, and sometimes for some inexplicable reason something may go wrong; just don't blame the bird, dog, cat, or even the kid.

4. Always multiply the amount of time you think it would take you by two point five: Strangely enough this is a proven formula that's pretty accurate. No, this is not a made up, top of the head formula. Test it out next time you work on any project, whether it's painting, cleaning, gardening, or even running errands. You think it will take how much time?

5. Reset your deadline: Always reset your deadline privately and don't share it with anybody. You will have better success if you reset your own deadline to finish early. The purpose is to have leeway at the end to review, review, and review your work before submitting it. If you find errors, which you will, you then have enough time to correct without stress.

Apply these five techniques and you can avoid that writer's stress and possibly that horrendous headache that comes as a bonus for not having a plan. And really, thank goodness for deadlines, or else we'd never get that writing assignment done!

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