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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What Does Being a Prolific Fiction Writer Really Mean? You might already be prolific. I’ve hammered out a definition for prolific indie fiction writers that doesn’t look quite like any other definition out there. As I talk about prolificacy a lot, I wanted to define it here, as there are a lot of misconceptions (and
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Why “Live Well”? – 2021 Edition This is the last of the “rebuilt” posts from 2017/2018, and also the last of the Definition posts. It’s a hybrid, because the original post was built from two different sources. I’ve amalgamated those sources instead of simply referring to them. ———– One of the things that happened recently
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Continuing the series of reviews on my earliest posts, as the industry has changed that much in four years. And so have I. This week, I’m looking at the January 19, 2018 post, ‘Why “Sell More”?’. ____ We all want to sell more. Even the purest literary snob appreciates selling more than before because that
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Continuing the series of look-back-and-review posts, rebuilding the original definitions and “whys” I posted when I first started this blog, four years ago…because so much has changed since then! Today, I’m looking at the original post; ‘Why “Write More”?’, which I originally posted here on January 5th, 2018. ——– We’re moving toward the end of
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Following on in the revision series, where I’m examining all the original posts on the PIFW site and bringing them up to date, so they reflect the current state of the indie publishing scene. Today, I’m reviewing ‘Why “Writer”?’, which first appeared on January 5, 2018. Productivity concerns are not the exclusive province of writers,
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I’m updating the original posts in this site, to reflect some of the massive changes we authors have faced in the last four years. Today I’m looking at ‘Why “Fiction”?’, which was published in December 2017 and can be found here on the site. —- From the original post: A non-fiction author’s sustainable writing practice
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This is the next post in the Big Review of 2021 – I’m going back over the original posts on this site, and adjusting for the changes that have occurred in the four years since. Today I’m re-examining ‘Why “Indie”’, which appeared here on December 15, 2017 (a small ice age ago, in indie publishing
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In December this year (2021), The Productive Indie Fiction Writer will be four years old. When I started the blog, I thought that indie publishing was reaching a level of maturity and would stabilize. Ha! There has possibly been more movement and change in the last four years of indie publishing than there was in
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If you read this week’s log post, then you’ve already been acquainted with one aspect of living well in relation to being the most productive indie fiction writer you can be. What is “living well”? It’s not just about making sure you hit the gym regularly and eat clean as much as possible, although exercise
