The Ultimate Planning Book for a Creative Life: Ninja Writer’s Guide to a Fresh Start, by Shaunta Grimes

Yve Laran
4 min readJan 6, 2022

A Mini Book Review

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This is the perfect book to jumpstart your new year and to accelerate your creativity. I was prompted to purchase this book via Amazon after reading several Medium posts by the author, Shauta Grimes. This will not be a traditional book review, as I will write about practical actions and thoughts in responding to this book.

In Ms. Grimes, I find a kindred spirit. She recently wrote a post on the number of notebooks and planners she owns, and why.

You may read her post, as follows:

My Planner and Notebook Game for 2022 | by Shaunta Grimes | The Write Brain | Jan, 2022 | Medium

I own three planners: a small planner to track the work in my day job; a larger 18-month weekly planner for personal use, and a medium-sized weekly gratitude journal. I began using three planners in March 2020 after Covid-19 sparked a career shift, and I prefer using all three, as each is distinct and serve their purpose. I keep the work planner next to my laptop throughout the day to track time spent on projects and to write reminders of people to call in the weeks ahead.

It’s invaluable: I write items down right away and don’t keep my thoughts…

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Yve Laran
Yve Laran

Written by Yve Laran

Bibliophile, Writer and Blogger at yve.laran@wordpress.com. Podcaster on Spotify as Yve Laran. Master’s=Political; Bachelor’s=Musical