Your Quiz Responses Suggest Your Writing Productivity Style May be an Arranger

You can be a highly efficient team player in your family and work. You help the world work together and have concern for people as well as your project.

Arrangers benefit from having a writing critique group and are supportive of others in a group setting. You learn from reading and critiquing others’ work because you tend to invest in people and their writing projects. Your sense of responsibility can cause you to take on projects and duties to help others at the detriment of your writing progress.

Writing Productivity Style: Arranger/ Possible Roadblocks

You may worry about how others will react to your work if it stops you from writing. Arrangers need to respect their writing process and their ownership of their own stories.

Arrangers may have to permit themselves to write their story, which includes characters from their families. Password protect your computer and lock up your notebooks until you are ready to consider the input of family members who may or may not be open to you telling your story.   Too many Arrangers don’t write their stories because they know some family members will be hurt or will not see the same truths in the same way that the writer does.  These concerns shouldn’t keep you from writing.  Write your best story and then decide how to change characters, get permission, or fictionalize the work. There is a way to work around these concerns but first, write the story.

Writer Productivity Style: Arranger/ Capitalize On Your Strengths

Arrangers work best with streamlined systems in place. Have a project plan in place and break that project down into calendar tasks. Include daily writing goals, marketing plan, reading list, and editing work in your plan depending on where you are in the process. Consider using our free writer worksheets.  Keep your non-writing goals on a separate calendar to keep you from always prioritizing others’ needs over your work. Even if you only give yourself 45 minutes daily, those minutes must serve your writing life.

Arrangers can be prone to believing their feelings about how others should or could act. Arrangers should ask questions of others and of those who critique their work rather than react too quickly. No one has all the answers.

Arrangers may be motivated by framed thank-you cards, positive critiques, and friendly photos in their workspace.

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