Author name: Tracy

Why You Should Always Fight to Get Back to Your Routine When You’re Knocked Off It

/ Disaster Planning, Discipline & Motivation, Technology, Tools & AI / 8 minutes of reading

“When jarred unavoidably by circumstance, revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep going back to it.” – Marcus Aurelius Have you ever been on a roll–everything is clicking along smoothly? You’re writing regularly and when you should, […]

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Do You Need Transition Time in Your Schedule?

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Scheduling & Tracking / 6 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

  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 Never Run Out of Ideas — For Anything

/ Creativity, Technology, Tools & AI / 5 minutes of reading

  Part of being prolific is having a great many ideas for stories, from among which you can pick and choose what inspires you the most. Also part of writing quickly, is having plenty of resources at hand for ideas for characters and settings, story beats, personal ticks and characteristics, and much more. Quirky appearances,

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The Last Remaining Temptation Of Indie Authors

/ Discipline & Motivation, Stoicism & Perspective / 6 minutes of reading

The indie publishing industry has provided for indie authors a great many of the benefits that were once the province of traditional publishing only. There is very little these days a traditional publisher can give an indie author that his indie career is not already providing in spades. In many respects, indie publishing imparts even

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Weekly Log – November 19, 2019: Calm Waters At Last

/ Scheduling & Tracking / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

This week’s log: Monday:  Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: 4,561 words. Saturday:  4,707 words. So, after the flurry of the last few weeks, and me very (not so) smartly trying to juggle two books at once, I’m back to one at a time, and thoroughly enjoying myself.  The words are flowing. It

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