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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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If you only read this blog of mine, and not any of my author blogs or social media, then it might have seemed like everything was ticking along nicely here. In actual fact, for several weeks now I have been working through a personal health crisis, utterly unable to spare any attention to The Productive
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Indie Authors make money from their backlist, not the latest release. How are you managing YOUR backlist? The first thing readers do, once they’ve read some of your work and liked it, is immediately look for anything else you’ve written. Especially if you write in series, readers will binge on that series, then inhale your entire
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20 Tips to Become Super-Prolific 2022 Edition A version of this post appeared in 2018. This edition has been updated. Whole books have been written and courses have been taught on the art and science of prolificacy. A short post on the essentials can only skim the surface, but each step will offer an entry
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How many words you write in a single hour is the atomic number for fiction writers. When you’ve been keeping a writing log for a while, the number becomes a highly accurate predictor of how much you can write in any single hour, no matter the circumstances. Once you have calculated this number, your whole
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Whenever writers talk to me about being prolific, the objections writers raise tend to slide into two ancillary subjects: Both of these arguments aren’t really arguments at all. They’re 1) a mindset and 2) a choice. Or, really, they’re both just mindsets. They’re damned invasive mindsets, too. Many authors recognize the fallacy of both arguments
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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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Authors often raise their brows when I mention “Backlist Maintenance”. Maintaining your backlist doesn’t sound sexy. For authors with only a handful of releases, backlist maintenance isn’t a thing. But when you get into the realm of 20 or 50 or (like me) 120+ published titles, backlist maintenance becomes critical. Here’s why. Indies make money
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The image, I’m afraid, is not a metaphor. Yesterday, full of energy and determination, I headed out into the garden to cut a new bed for our veggies this year. Forty minutes later, I found myself flat on my back, with my arm screaming at me. I had fallen, and tried to save myself with
