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  Have you ever had so many irons in the fire that you couldn't decide where to start? A strategy I've used before is now being tested like never before as my move-in date to a ground-floor studio has been bumped up by a month...while I try to downsize my possessions for a less cluttered place...while staying on track with my new WIP and looking for a new job. The move became necessary because of a broken elevator forcing me to man two steep flights of steps, sometimes several times a day, with a strained back and lame knee. I'd lined up a ground-floor studio in the same building, one of several. The move date was September 10. Well and good. But I learned of an opening now for a spacious 1BR ADA apartment in the main back building. I'd get this for the same price I've paid for my studio. But I'd need to move in by July 30. How? I could handle the financing and the usual change of address steps. My mover could handle the new date. But how could I arrange for j...

This month has been all about downsizing, which for 90% of writers that I know is a slow and painful parting of the ways with a small section of their book mountain at very least.   The Edwards-Coleborn household is attempting to relocate to somewhere easier to manage and   one of the inevitable consequences is that some of our carefully amassed volumes are going to have to go – but which tomes will be destined for the chop? (illo on left not my study - but not unlike!) We’ve been whittling away at the shelves for some weeks now with some (limited) success, and I have noted at least ten phases of book sorting - as follows: ·          One : the easiest part – mainly non-fiction that is used less  and less as we turn to the internet for those morsels of information - items of day-to-day research requiring urgent answers. Things such as the composition of  powder applicators in a 1930s handbag compact; the exact week that ...