From the mailbag: “Why experiment with anything? Hasn’t everyone done that already? I’m already so pushed for time, I can’t justify blowing more of it on doubling up the work someone else has done. What’s the point?” —name withheld. The emailer was responding in private to my post last week, “The Vital Cog In […]
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This week’s log: Monday: 0 words Tuesday: 0 words Wednesday: 0 words Thursday: 5,915 words Friday: 8,764 words Saturday: 8,255 words For a total of 22.934 words for the week. The first half of the week, I was officially on the sick list. I wrote about it in last Friday’s big post. Thursday, I was
Weekly Log – July 15, 2019: Re-orienting. Read More »
How healthy are you? Before your eyes glaze over and you click away, first take a moment to do a simple thought experiment. The last time you binge watched anything, or went to the cinema, sat through the pre-show, the trailers, the advertisements and then two hours+ of movie…how did you feel when you got
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This week’s log: Monday: 0 words Tuesday: 0 words Wednesday: 0 words Thursday: 0 words Friday: 0 words Saturday: 0 words For a total of 0 words for the week. I could not have told you what I was doing last week. I just…didn’t…write. Today, (Monday before the post goes live) I didn’t write either.
Weekly Log – July 9, 2019: WTF??? Read More »
Quite a while ago, I sent out a Sunday email to the newsletter list, talking about incorporating sick & play time into your production schedule. Unfortunately, that email has been lost because of a sudden move to a different email service provider, with no chance to recover archived emails. I’ve referred to sick & play
This week’s log: Monday: Production & marketing Tuesday: 9,278 words Wednesday: 6,390 words Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting For a total of 15,668 words for the week. I finished off the production work from last week on Monday, then got right back into the current book, which I finished on Tuesday. Then straight over
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An author’s lot has never been easy. Historically, very few authors out of the millions who have attempted to write for a living ever reached that ambition. The explosion of the indie publishing industry, which really hit its stride around 2010/2011, made it much easier for far more authors to made decent money. All it
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This week’s log: Monday: 8,214 words Tuesday: 7,752 words Wednesday: Production & marketing Thursday: Production & marketing Friday: Production & marketing Saturday: Production & marketing For a total of 15,966 words for the week. It was a low word count week, but a high-volume and productive week in other terms. I was forced to put
Weekly Log – June 24, 2019: Gearing Up. Read More »
Here’s a simple experiment you can try today and it only takes 30 minutes. Open up the book you’re currently writing. Grab a timer — IOS, Windows and Android all have built in timers/clock functions that can act as stopwatches and timers. If you don’t have one installed, there are a ton of free apps
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This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: 6,413 Words Thursday: 5,965 Words Friday: 7,039 Words Saturday: 9,491 Words For a total of 28,908 words for the week. Finished the plot on the current book a day earlier than scheduled, rolled straight over into the writing. As usual, the front end of the book was
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