Many years ago, I learned that many professional, full time writers have workstations dedicated ONLY to writing. All the other business of writing — bookkeeping, promotion, post production, etc — all that business was kept on a separate computer. Or computers. Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, in particular, are well known for have […]
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Total for the week: 30,124 words + this post. Not too shabby, this week. I got the next book plotting and quite a few words into writing it, too. I’m working super hard on remaining consistent each day, instead of feast-or-famine wordcounts. t.
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I’ve tried standing desks. I’ve used sitting desks. And I’ve even used a device that would turn my sitting desk into a sit/stand desk, which only lasted for about a year before I gave it up and went back to sitting. In the last year, thanks to that global event we’re all so sick of
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Total for the week: 37,261 words. Not quite as many words as last week, but that’s because I finished the last book, spent a day plotting the next novelette, a day writing it and a day plotting the next book. I’m quite pleased with the steady progress of the week. Starting a new book is
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This is part two of a series. See Part One In the first post on this short series, I deal with the types of blocks and mental fallacies that can stop you from writing. The infamous Writer’s Block. At the end of the post, I outlined ways to deal with such blocks. All the steps
Total for the week: 40,385 words. Normally, that many words would be a decent week. It’s nearly 5,800 words a day. But at the moment, to try and get ahead of my production schedule so I have a decent amount of post production time for each book, I need to write 9,000 words a day
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Total for the week: 11.269 words. I keep thinking about the quote “pride goes before a fall”. I was super happy with my productivity last week, despite challenges. So this week was one pratfall after another. I wrote some of the current book, some heavy duty blog posts, a secondary story…I got bits done here
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Part One. I nearly added “Writer’s Block” to the title of this post. The only reason I didn’t is because there is no such thing as a generic malady that stops writers cold. “Writer’s Block” is a collective term for a whole heap of issues that writers have to deal with that, if they let
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Total for the week: 20,728 words. I did not expect this week to be as productive as it was. It was the first of the month on Monday and administration and bookkeeping on the first is always a half-day at least. And at the moment, thanks to COVID, we only shop for groceries once a
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This site, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer, is dedicated to helping you find hacks and help to make the most of your time, so that you can get more books finished and released. That means every week I talk about mindset and the philosophy of getting more done, plus industry news that impacts the prolific,
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