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Weekly Log – October 22, 2019: Another Shake Up

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This week’s log: Monday:  Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Production Schedule Reorganization Thursday: Production Schedule Reorganization Friday: Workshop Presentation preparation Saturday: Workshop Presentation For a total of 0 words for the week. I’ve changed things again.  This may appear to be a spontaneous thing, but the groundwork for the change has been building over the last […]

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Plotman To the Rescue

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Plotting Help For the Prolific I feel like I’ve been recommending books a lot lately.   Only, I’ve been reading some great how-tos, that I simply have to share. Bear with me a for a couple more mentions. A few months ago, I wrote a post about making your plotting more efficient, in response to a direct

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Weekly Log – October 15, 2019: And the Rewards…

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This week’s log: Monday:  0 Words Tuesday: 9,424 Words Wednesday: 3,709 Words (end of book) Thursday:  Editing, Plotting Friday: 4,408 Words Saturday: Worldbuilding Sunday: Worldbuilding For a total of 17,541 words for the week. The word count was miniscule this week, but mighty in meaning.  I finished the book early–it was shorter than I expected. 

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A Dash Of Inspiration for November

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Scheduling & Tracking, Technology, Tools & AI / 2 minutes of reading

Following up on last week’s post, “How I Got Published, and What I Learned Along The Way“. I mentioned in that post that the book would be part of Kevin J. Anderson’s NaNoWriMo bundle for authors. The bundle is now available, and includes inspirational how-to books from a great many authors you’ll recognize:  Joanna Penn,

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How I Got Published, and What I Learned Along The Way

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  Something a little bit different today. I was recently invited to join a how-to anthology scheduled to publish shortly before NaNoWriMo month, for this year’s entrants to take advantage of.  While the anthology was still in production, it was picked up by Kevin J. Anderson for his NaNoWriMo StoryBundle, and the release date advanced by

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Weekly Log – October 1, 2019: Bring on the stillness

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This week’s log: Monday:  5,132 Words Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Workshop Preparation Saturday: Workshop Presentation Sunday: Plotting For a total of 5,132 words for the week. No drama this week.  I feel I should apologize for that, except that it was nice to have a smooth week, with the plotting going well.

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Is Your Business Recession Proof? Some Prolific Strategies Which Will Help.

/ Stoicism & Perspective / 7 minutes of reading

Just in the last few weeks, economists and financial experts have been throwing around the dreaded “R” word.  Recession. To be clear, they’re speaking of the USA heading toward a recession.  However, it doesn’t really matter where you sit on the globe, a recession in the USA tends to reach out and clobber a whole

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Weekly Log – September 24, 2019: Oh, sweet relief!!

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This week’s log: Monday:  5,284 Words Tuesday: 6,186 Words Wednesday: 5,576 Words Thursday: 5,498 Words Friday: 5,691 Words Saturday: 5,234 Words Sunday: 2,360 Words For a total of 35,827 words for the week. It appears the new plan is working.  Last week was so solid you could give yourself concussion if you ran into it.

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When Your Creativity Goes Stale.

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

There are very few drawbacks to indie publishing.  Challenges, certainly, but the independent author tends to thrive on challenges and prefer it that way.  Hard work aplenty, too. Downsides, not so much. Most of the “downsides” you see reported elsewhere, we consider positives:  Having no one else to rely upon but ourselves is a good

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