This week’s log: Monday: 0 Words Tuesday: 8,863 Wednesday: 7,541 Thursday: 0 Friday: 9,399 words Saturday: 5,573 words For a total of 31376 words for the week. The surprise is not how little I wrote (for me), but how much I actually got done. This week was a perfect storm: major new book launch with […]
Weekly Log – May 7, 2019: And another solid week. Read More »
One of the most basic, most quoted tenets of productivity, one engraved into our brains, is “avoid distractions”. Only, that isn’t taking it nearly far enough — something I (re)learned this week…finally. I don’t know about you, but when I read or hear a version of “avoid distractions”, I tend to slide over the statement
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This week’s log: Monday: 0 Words (Easter Monday) Tuesday: 8,281 Wednesday: 8,211 Thursday: 6,352 words Friday: 5,289 words Saturday: 3,917 words For a total of 32,050 words for the week. The not-difficult week of catching up didn’t go quite to plan. (Big surprise.) As the title of the post suggests, I’m pretty happy with the
Weekly Log – April 30, 2019: Solid, but not enough. Read More »
How paperless are your work processes? How close to completely paperless should you try to get? I’ve been as close to 100% digital as one get get, these days, and have been for many years. The only thing stopping me from 100% is the occasional paper letter that lands among the junk mail in
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This week’s log: Monday: plotting Tuesday: plotting Wednesday: plotting Thursday: 2,501 words (plotting & started writing) Friday: 964 words Saturday: 212 words For a miserable total of 3,677 words for the week. The Easter long weekend sneaked up on me and caught me by surprise. Family dinners and other get-togethers sideswiped writing altogether. I couldn’t even
Weekly Log – April 23, 2019. Take that! Read More »
If you’ve dropped into the middle of The Productive Indie Fiction Writer, and are working you way through archives, I’m sure your first impression is that the only thing that matters in getting ahead as an indie is more books, more books, more books. Unfortunately, that’s only half the story. What you write has as
It Isn’t Simply A Matter of Writing Lots of Books… Read More »
This week’s log: No wordcount recorded. This week I’ve been plotting Book #100 and also shifting gears. I hinted about that in last week’s log post, and also talked about some of my reasoning in Friday’s post, in more general terms that apply to all writers. Now I’m circling back to my writing again. And yes,
Weekly Log – April 16, 2019. Dropping the Clutch. Read More »
Is there such a thing as too many published books? Too much writing? I’ve been hearing a resurgence of comments and opinions heading in this direction lately, mostly aimed at very prolific authors like Bella Andre, who releases a novel every three weeks. Thanks to the #CopyPasteCris debacle, and the growing awareness of the use of
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This week’s log: Monday: 5,363 words. As expected, I did finish Book #3 for the year on Monday, early into the day’s writing schedule. The rest of this week’s writing time was used to clean up a lot of stuff, and clear the deck to plot the next book. Part of that clean-up included a
Weekly Log – April 9, 2019. Shuffling… Read More »
It’s likely this post will be late, because… well, let me explain that one. Yesterday was a day from tech hell. In this era of app integration, I’m still somewhat amazed that disparate apps can talk to each other and automate some amazingly complex processes. Yesterday, though, two of them decided to not play nicely
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