How to Write When You’re Supposed To
Another essential tool in the prolific author’s toolbox.
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Is Everything *Really* Going Wrong?
You don’t have a lot of time to write during the day. Just a hour or a tad more, because you’ve got commitments and a life and bills that keep showing up. (We took down our mailbox…they still showed up via email.) Every minute of your writing time is precious. But everything and everyone is
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Don’t Look Down
I’ve had severe health issues that stretch back nearly a year, now. I lost an entire month of work because of it, and more days off here and there because of complications. At one point, while COVID was at its most severe, I risked going to the ER, believing that I had either pancreatic cancer
Are You Looking For The Pain-Free Solution?
There have been any number of gurus and productivity experts out there who hawk their solutions as “painless” and “easy”. It makes sense to make a new system or app sound completely effortless, because it sells. Unfortunately, if an app or system or hack really is effortless to use, then it doesn’t do anything. Anything
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How To Take Charge of Your Weekends
A small ice age ago, when I started this site, I wrote original content for a weekly newsletter attached to this site as well as original content for the site itself. The newsletter didn’t seem to appeal to writers, so I quickly ceased producing it. I’ve had to jump to new email service providers several
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A Different Take on Productivity — And Just Made for Writers
Most productivity books and gurus tend to focus on time management — finding more time and how to squeeze more into that time, and also, inevitably, how to choose your priorities because no one can do it all, these days. Graham Allcott, author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja, comes at productivity in a
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If It’s Working, Don’t Mess With It
When I first started this site, I was super ambitious, and wrote a post for each weekly newsletter, as well as a full post for the blog, AND the work log each week. All the original posts I wrote for the email newsletter have gone. I don’t have them on my hard drive anymore and
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One of best reasons to write faster (and it’s not what you think)
As you saw last week, I’ve been having health issues. Still. It’s an ongoing, nearing-chronic problem that has kept me from the desk for weeks, and I’m still not putting in what I consider a full day’s work, even as I write this post. I haven’t written any fiction for nearly four weeks. I can
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After the Happy Ever After — Romance Workshop
In April, I will be hosting a zoom workshop for the Regina Public Library and the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, aimed at romance authors. After the Happy Ever After What to do with your romance novel once you’ve written “The End” You’ve slaved and sweated (and swooned) over your romance novel and now you’ve finished it.
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No post this week.
The pinched nerve in my neck is getting the better of me. After the better part of a week spent in bed, I crawled to the desk today and several hours later have only just combed through all my emails. I’m in severe emergency mode, and still not at 100% capacity. I’ll see you next
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