There are very few drawbacks to indie publishing. Challenges, certainly, but the independent author tends to thrive on challenges and prefer it that way. Hard work aplenty, too. Downsides, not so much. Most of the “downsides” you see reported elsewhere, we consider positives: Having no one else to rely upon but ourselves is a good […]
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This week’s log: Monday: 5,294 Words Tuesday: 8,023 Words Wednesday: 2,945 Words Thursday: 0 Words Friday: 0 Words Saturday: 0 Words Sunday: 5,293 Words For a total of 21,555 words for the week. As I railed at myself last week, this week’s mission was simple. Stick with the schedule. Which I patently did not. By
Weekly Log – September 17, 2019: Holy Sheep-dip, Batman! Read More »
Writing sprints, as reintroduced by Chris Fox in his book, 5,000 Words Per Hour, is one of the most useful tools for increasing your hourly word count. I use them regularly to increase my words per hour rate. I don’t use them all the time, for a number of reasons. I will go back
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This week’s log: Monday: 10,079 Words Tuesday: 10,162 Words Wednesday: 10,126 Words Thursday: 5,362 Words Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting Sunday: Off For a total of 35,729 words for the week. This week was a challenge. No lie. I sweated getting the 10K/day pace I find so easy in other genres. All three 10K days, it
Weekly Log – September 10, 2019: Better. Read More »
I have bought all the Stone Tablet Singles that Sean Platt, Johnny Truant and Dave Wright have put out so far, but this particular one I resisted. That’s because my mind was made up. I have, over the last decade, given dictation four serious tries. I mean, two or three books’ worth of trial, with
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This week’s log: Monday: 0 Words Tuesday: 0 Words Wednesday: 0 Words Thursday: 0 Words Friday: 10,472 Words Saturday: 11,498 Words Sunday: 6,165 Words & Monthly accounting For a total of 28,135 words for the week. I lied. Last week I mentioned that the phone company was laying fiber optic cables around our neighborhood and
Weekly Log – September 3, 2019: Ugh… Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Book #10 Tuesday: Plotting Book #10 Wednesday: Plotting Book #10 Thursday: 5,392 Words Friday: 8,180 Words Saturday: Nope. For a total of 13,572 words for the week. As I was planning, last week, I did get some words done on Book #10 this week. Just not as many as I
Weekly Log – August 27, 2019: Weekends are Slippery Read More »
If you’re drowning — and we’ve all been there — there are some triage tactics you can employ to stop your embolism for 24 hours. I am a huge fan of Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits blog. Quite a while ago, he ran a post on exactly that. “When You Have Too Much To Do” outlines
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This week’s log: Monday: Conference Travel Tuesday: Post Conference Wednesday: 9,852 Words Thursday: 5,299 Words Friday: Admin Catch Up Saturday: Admin Catch Up For a total of 15,151 words for the week. A scrappy week. Conferences always take up more time than the actual days they’re scheduled. Between travel, prep and recovery, they’re time hogs.
Weekly Log – August 20, 2019: Book 9 Finished Read More »
One of the earliest prolific authors to inspire me was Isaac Asimov. In particular, his Opus. I can only link to the book on Goodreads, as it’s very difficult to find. The edition I had when I was in Australia was an omnibus that included Opus 100 and Opus 200. Even the introduction to Opus 100 is an ode
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