Author name: Tracy

How Shiny Objects Derail You Despite Your Best Intentions

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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Weekly Log – April 30, 2019: Solid, but not enough.

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

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Weekly Log – April 23, 2019. Take that!

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

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It Isn’t Simply A Matter of Writing Lots of Books…

  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

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Weekly Log – April 16, 2019. Dropping the Clutch.

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,

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Is There Such A Thing As Publishing Too Quickly?

  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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