Master category for maintenance and site posts.
In April, I will be hosting a zoom workshop for the Regina Public Library and the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, aimed at romance authors. After the Happy Ever After What to do with your romance novel once you’ve written “The End” You’ve slaved and sweated (and swooned) over your romance novel and now you’ve finished it. […]
After the Happy Ever After — Romance Workshop Read More »
The pinched nerve in my neck is getting the better of me. After the better part of a week spent in bed, I crawled to the desk today and several hours later have only just combed through all my emails. I’m in severe emergency mode, and still not at 100% capacity. I’ll see you next
No post this week. Read More »
I’m actually writing this well before Christmas, trying to clear the decks so I can meet all my writing commitments over the holiday period, and still have time off with the family. So I’m dodging the heavy posts here for a bit. I’ll return in a week or two, with refreshed enthusiasm. See you then.
Taking a Wee Bit o’ Time Off. Read More »
I’m holding a series of one-off Mastermind-styled meetings on Zoom throughout January & February. These will be structured meetings with a maximum of five people. Each author in their turn will explain what problem(s) they want to solve, or what goals they want to reach this year, and the group will help figure out possible
GIVE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY A BOOST IN 2022 Read More »
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
Why “Live Well”? – 2021 Edition Read More »
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
Why “Sell More”? – 2021 Edition Read More »
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
Why “Write More”? – 2021 Edition Read More »
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,
Why “Writer”? – 2021 Edition Read More »
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
Why “Fiction”? – 2021 Edition Read More »
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
Why “Indie” – 2021 Edition Read More »
