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Squeezing Reading Into Your Life And why you should try. All authors are told to read more. We’re told that frequently. Most of us came to writing because of a love of reading, so reading a lot was never the issue. As soon as the ambition to write fiction is born, and we start to […]
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I joined the Internet in 1994, only two years after it was opened to the public. One of the people I met online at that time was a (then) romance writer, Diana Stout. We have remained in contact ever since. Diana recently released a book: Finding Your Fire & Keeping It Hot: Discovering Your Why,
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Very rarely do I need to calculate the number of pages in an eBook. Most of the time, indie authors only care about the size of the file, and the number of words in the story itself (sans front and back matter). Besides, calculating pages in an eBook is an exercise in frustration; depending on
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The interview I did with Joanna Penn is now live on The Creative Penn.
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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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Have you ever noticed that as soon as you determine that, yes, you are going to commit to completing whatever big or small project is in front of you, it is as if the world heard you, rubbed its hands in glee, and threw all sorts of roadblocks up to test if you’re really sincere
Picking Up Speed A Bit… A quick housekeeping note, keeping you updated as promised. A couple of days ago, I met with my oncology team to wrap up my active chemotherapy treatments. I’m still in remission, and my personal plan going forward is a lifestyle review and strenuous rehabilitation program, in order to make the
I’m taking a bit of time out from posting. The latest round of chemotherapy is kicking my butt, plus I’m also trying to juggle a near-normal writing schedule, and something’s gotta give. However, I am working on a project for PIFW that I’ll be able to talk about in a week or so. See you
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Still Slow…but continuing. This is an update to my October 2022 post, “Slowing…But Not Stopping.” In that post I summarized all the health issues I had suffered through in 2022 (a lot) and their root cause, a rare form of cancer. In that post I also warned you that my post schedule on PIFW would
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In June last year, I went on a bit of a tirade here on PIFW about preceding participle phrases. I also dumped upon readers on Medium. But my distaste for this sentence structure goes back a long way before I said so publicly. And it turns out, I’m not the only writer/editor who abhors preceding
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