Queen Elizabeth II called 1992 her “Annus Horribilis”. She had endured the collapse of three of her children’s marriages (Anne, Andrew and Charles), a fire that burned down part of Windsor Castle, and other extraordinary stresses. Many people ascribe the invention of the Latin phrase to the Queen, but in fact it was the Roman […]
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Last week’s combined word count: 25,485 words. It was a very solid week, last week. I finished plotting mid-week, and on the same day rolled into writing the book that will end up being book #1 for 2021. Then I had the very distinct and satisfying pleasure of taking the weekend off. The task, now,
Weekly Log – December 8, 2020: …and rolling right on. Read More »
This post is a bit of an outlier, although it does have some relevance to productivity and prolificacy. I read Advantage: Harnessing Cumulative Advantage In The Winner Takes All Publishing Market in one sitting. It’s dense. It has charts and graphs and footnotes. It is not prescriptive (you have to deconstruct it carefully to figure
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Last week’s combined word count: 4,500 words (exactly. Weird.) Another week where the word count doesn’t match effort. I spent most of the week developing the concept for the next book, and plotting. I did finish a short story to drop into a release slot in early December, which is what the word count reflects.
Weekly Log – December 1, 2020: Rolling again. Read More »
There’s a “new” time management system doing the rounds, that I was tickled pink to learn I had already been doing all along. Sort of. Cal Newport (Deep Work), has launched his new time block planner, which is a paper planner designed to work with his time block planning system. There is a comprehensive video which
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Last week’s combined word count: 31,746 words. I finished the book that was behind schedule in a mass of consecutive marathon days, and ended up eating into only 3 of the next book’s scheduled days. That’s recoverable, and quickly, but I also don’t want to lose sight of the fact that I shouldn’t have run
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By rights, I should be settling in to write the next post about productivity. I had it planned — it’s a post about time blocking, and you’ll see that next week. But, as I mentioned in Tuesday’s log post the current book has blown a gasket and is now a runaway train. As I write
Last week’s combined word count: 32,180 words. And then you get a book like the one I’m currently (and still) writing. I scheduled this book to be 70K words. I’m currently on 53K and I’m just coming up on what I thought was the mid-point. It was the mid-point in my outline. If it remains the
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Recently, I wrote a post “What Prolific Should Mean“, and mentioned that there are ways to increase your hourly word rate so that, no matter what speed you’re writing at (dead slow, marathon or white-knuckling it), you’re producing more words per hour than you used to. As this entire site is dedicated to helping you
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