If you read this week’s log post, then you’ve already been acquainted with one aspect of living well in relation to being the most productive indie fiction writer you can be. What is “living well”? It’s not just about making sure you hit the gym regularly and eat clean as much as possible, although exercise […]
This week was a solid week of work, but I have no real word counts to add because it was all concept and plotting work. The next book isn’t due to be started until Monday. However, I adjusted the schedule and will actually start it on Friday, giving me a bit of leeway. That left
Weekly Log – January 23, 2018 Read More »
We all want to sell more. Even the purest literary snob appreciates selling more than before because that is a sign of growth, that their art is maturing and they are reaching more people and speaking to them. Selling more is a measure. of growth of acceptance of the size of your audience of your
I’m going to hop straight into last week’s word count sheet, so you can see what happened. Date | Word Count | Weekly Word Count | Daily Deficit | Weekly Deficit | Blog posts |
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We’re moving toward the end of the original definitions and will be able to move on to specifics in a few more posts. I’m looking forward to that! For now, why “Write more”? The Bipolar Indie Scene Recently, David Gaughran has written a number of posts about the Wide/KU debate that rages in the indie
There is no such thing as a “typical” week. Average is a mythical point mid-way between extremes. It tells you nothing except that half of everything you are measuring falls below that point, and half sits above it. Essentially, it is meaningless, except to tell you if you are above or below the line. As
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Productivity concerns are not the exclusive province of writers, although we tend to agonize over such matters because we’re self-employed and have no one to prod us back to work when we wander off-track. We’re also creatively effective at procrastinating ourselves into the ground. I could have made this blog about productivity for everyone in
A short post I wrote for Kobo Writing Life just popped up on their blog, here, entitled “How Going Wide Helped Me Quit My Day Job”. It’s not completely unrelated to productivity. As David Gaughran recently pointed out in his post: “A Tale of Two Marketing Systems,” Wide authors and KU Authors are beginning to show
A Going-Wide Perspective on the KU versus Wide Debate. Read More »
I didn’t report in last week. I didn’t think anyone would notice a missing blog post amongst the party favours and Christmas wrapping. My last Log was December 19th and I reported that I had finished the book and was rolling into the next one. Here’s what the last two weeks looked like: Dec 19-23:
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A non-fiction author’s sustainable writing practice looks quite a bit different from a fiction author’s. Both authors must build concepts, research their books, outline them and write them. However, non-fiction is usually quite short while novels frequently wend their way toward the 100K word mark. That puts pressure on any production schedule. While non-fiction authors
