This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting + 4,945 words Thursday: 10,239 words Friday: 10,205 words Saturday: 10,505 words Sunday: 10,063 words For a total of 45,957 words for the week. So, I caught up, as promised. Big time. 45K+ words in a week is more than my weekly word count on a full […]
Weekly Log – May 21, 2019: An Amazing Week Read More »
This is Part 2 of an informal series about Pen Names. See Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3 or Part 4. A reader emailed me the other day to ask: I want to juggle 3 pen names. I know you’re also juggling pen names and projects and was wondering if you’d done a blog post on how you handle
Pen Names for the Prolific – How to Juggle Them Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 5,775 Words Tuesday: 4,700 Words & outlining Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting For a total of 10,475 words for the week. This week was a bit of a scramble. I finished a book on Monday, then used Tuesday to finish a non-fiction article for an essay collection later
Weekly Log – May 14, 2019: Behind For Positive Reasons Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 0 Words Tuesday: 8,863 Wednesday: 7,541 Thursday: 0 Friday: 9,399 words Saturday: 5,573 words For a total of 31376 words for the week. The surprise is not how little I wrote (for me), but how much I actually got done. This week was a perfect storm: major new book launch with
Weekly Log – May 7, 2019: And another solid week. Read More »
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
How Shiny Objects Derail You Despite Your Best Intentions Read More »
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
Weekly Log – April 30, 2019: Solid, but not enough. Read More »
How paperless are your work processes? How close to completely paperless should you try to get? I’ve been as close to 100% digital as one get get, these days, and have been for many years. The only thing stopping me from 100% is the occasional paper letter that lands among the junk mail in
Handwriting and Efficiency Read More »
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
Weekly Log – April 23, 2019. Take that! Read More »
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
It Isn’t Simply A Matter of Writing Lots of Books… Read More »
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,
Weekly Log – April 16, 2019. Dropping the Clutch. Read More »
