This is a two-part post. Part 1. Part II. _________________ Last week, I talked about the benefits of keeping notebooks. This week, I’m looking at whether you should even bother keeping notebooks, this day and age. First up, the arguments against notebooks. Why you shouldn’t keep notebooks. Clutter Bins Steve Pavlina, a long-time lifestyle blogger, […]
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This is a two-part post. Part 1. Part II. _________________ Lately, I’ve come across a few separate opinions on the worth of notebooks for writers that I found interesting. They made me reflect upon the usefulness of notebooks for writers in this hyper-connected, fast-progressing and digitized era. What are notebooks for writers? It might seem
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The interview I did with Joanna Penn is now live on The Creative Penn.
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Keeping Your Inbox at Zero. This is part Four and the final post of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). Last week, I described how you can get your inbox to zero. It’s possible you may still be working on your stash of emails and haven’t yet reached zero, but you
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I recently completed an interview with Joanna Penn, for her Creative Penn podcast. At the time, we thought it would go live in November. This morning, I learned that the episode will go live this Monday, October 30th. I’ll be talking about The Productive Indie Fiction Writer book, and a lot of other things, too
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Getting to Zero The First Time. This is part Three of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). In the last two weeks we’ve looked at why you might want to work toward an empty inbox and keep it that way, and some of the prep and practicalities of managing an empty
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Make Your Life Easier, First. This is part Two of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). Last week, we looked at all the reasons why you might want to work toward an empty inbox at all times. Stress relief, security, and avoiding legal hassles were just a few of them. This
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And How to Keep It There. This is part One of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). ____________________ I received an email from a PIFW reader a few weeks ago, asking me how I managed to stay on top of my emails. She knew how busy I was, yet I always
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This is absolutely not a book I could have written! I am so thoroughly a plotter that even when I bought an expensive course on how to pants through a story, I still couldn’t do it. This, despite two serious attempts to work my way through the course material. Plotting is calcified into my bones,
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You don’t have to be working at writing fiction for long before you get to hear about NaNoWriMo. The National Novel Writing Month is simply a personal challenge that you can make as public as you like, to write and complete a novel manuscript in the month of November. If the whole idea of writing
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