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How to Create A Writing Schedule You Can Live With – 2022 Edition.  Part Two.

Last week we looked at what a writing schedule is (and isn’t) and why you would want to use one.  This week:  How to build your schedule. _____ Your Typical Day The idea with this step is to build a “typical” day.  That might mean every day of the week looks different, and you must

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How to Create A Writing Schedule You Can Live With – 2022 Edition.  Part One.

I’m currently working through some of the original posts on this site, which are now several years old, and updating them for the times we currently face, to build in some resilience and flexibility so you can succeed in a future you may not be able to guess the shape of right now. Today’s post

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Do You Need Transition Time in Your Schedule?

  Last week I spoke at length about stashing your time–well, stashing anything you can, actually, as a hedge against the vagaries of the publishing industry. Stashing time is a matter of deliberately working ahead of your production schedule.  (And if you don’t have a production schedule–a timetable of releases–then you’re missing the backbone of

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How to Build A Workable, Useful Production Schedule (and how to use it). Part 3 (and final).

This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | If you have followed along with Part One and Part Two of this blog post, then you will have all your prep work done and be ready to dive into building your first production schedule. So let’s go. Backwards or Forwards?

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How to Build A Workable, Useful Production Schedule (and how to use it). Part 2.

This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | How To Set Up Your Production Sheet Last week I went through the many reasons why building yourself a tailored production sheet pays some very nice dividends, both in the long and the short term.  You can find that post here.

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How to Build A Workable, Useful Production Schedule (and how to use it). Part 1.

This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Do you need a production schedule? If you are a writer, and you have any commercial ambitions at all, then yes, you do. A well-built production schedule will help you stop the overwhelm, restore your sanity, and give you a proper

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How to Set Up Your Writing Schedule, Kill Stress and Get Things Done

How do you decide when you’re going to write? Do you move through your day, hoping time will magically open up when you can sit and scribble a few hundred words on your current manuscript? Do you get to the end of your day and feel frustrated, because you never opened the manuscript at all?

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How to Juggle Your Production Schedule So You’re Never Bored.

  In my weekly log this week, I mentioned that I have six books in production, as well as the one I’m currently writing. I don’t know if it’s the terminology or the concept that confuses people, but I thought I would expand upon this part of my writing production schedule, because it has huge

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