Weekly Log – January 16, 2018
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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Why “Write More”?
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
Weekly Log – January 9, 2018
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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Why “Writer”?
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 Going-Wide Perspective on the KU versus Wide Debate.
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
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Weekly Log – January 2, 2018
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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Why “Fiction”?
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
Weekly Log – December 19, 2017
Last week’s log may have left you with the impression of a mechanical workhorse that didn’t miss a beat, while you struggle and miss days and your logs (if you even keep them) are messy things that are a real reflection of life. So let me show you this week’s log. Right click and open
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Why “Indie”?
The short answer is, because traditional authors are so hamstrung by their contracts that writing anything more than their permitted one book a year is a waste of time. Of course, the reality is more nuanced than that. I have been traditionally published and know that world a little. On the other hand, I have
Weekly Log – December 12, 2017
This weeks is the first full week of work logs. Right click and open in a new tab to get it to full screen size, so you can read it, if it’s too small on the screen I’ve cut and paste a few of the critcal columns here: Word Count Start Word Count End Total
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