Creativity

Writing Through Disfluency: How to Embrace the Grind and Keep Moving Forward

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Habits / 6 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Writing is hard. Some days, it’s staring at a blank page until your soul starts to shrivel. Other days, it’s forcing words onto the page that feel as clunky as a toddler’s first steps. This difficulty, though, isn’t a bug in the system—it’s a feature. What you’re experiencing is disfluency, the grinding friction that comes when creativity refuses to flow like a perfect algorithm. But here’s the kicker: disfluency isn’t just a hurdle to clear; it’s the point of the creative process.

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Why Indie Authors Need Downtime (And How to Actually Get It)

/ Creativity, Indie Health, Longevity & Wellness, INDIE PUBLISHING, Scheduling & Tracking / 5 minutes of reading

As an indie author, you’re not just a writer. You’re a marketing department, an editor, a publisher, a social media manager, and possibly the person who has to remember to water the plants. All this juggling means burnout is more than a risk—it’s almost a guarantee if you’re not actively carving out downtime. And yet, downtime isn’t laziness or time wasted. It’s the fuel that keeps the creative engine running and prevents that ugly beast called burnout from knocking on your door.

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Why Writing to Market Won’t Serve You Anymore

/ Creativity, Research, Voice / 6 minutes of reading / 3 Comments

Writing to Market isn’t quite as divisive as Wide versus KU, but it comes close. Mention Writing to Market to a group of indie authors, and you’ll witness a heated debate spring to life almost immediately.  Sometimes full-blown arguments can break out. For the record, I’ve never written to market.  Not because I’ve ignored the

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The Case For and Against Keeping Notebooks, Part II

/ Creativity, Notetaking, Technology, Tools & AI / 12 minutes of reading / 4 Comments

This is a two-part post.  Part 1.  Part II. _________________ Last week, I talked about the benefits of keeping notebooks.  This week, I’m looking at whether you should even bother keeping notebooks, this day and age. First up, the arguments against notebooks.  Why you shouldn’t keep notebooks. Clutter Bins Steve Pavlina, a long-time lifestyle blogger,

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The Case For and Against Keeping Notebooks, Part I

/ Creativity, Notetaking, Technology, Tools & AI / 6 minutes of reading

This is a two-part post.  Part 1.  Part II. _________________ Lately, I’ve come across a few separate opinions on the worth of notebooks for writers that I found interesting.  They made me reflect upon the usefulness of notebooks for writers in this hyper-connected, fast-progressing and digitized era. What are notebooks for writers? It might seem

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One More Reason To Be A Prolific Writer

/ Creativity, INDIE PUBLISHING, PRODUCTIVITY & ORGANIZATION, Prolificacy, Technology, Tools & AI / 3 minutes of reading

One More Reason To Be A Prolific Writer And why this one will be critical in the future No matter what you write, writing a lot comes with benefits. Authors like Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush make excellent cases for writing quantities of non-fiction.  I’ve spent years and written dozens of posts exploring the benefits

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Two Questions That Transform Your Meh Fiction Idea To One Readers Rush To Buy

/ Creativity, INDIE PUBLISHING, Plotting & Outlining / 8 minutes of reading

Most story ideas, even the coolest of them, are just ideas. Here’s an idea I grabbed off a random plot generator I found online: An action thriller set in New York in the 1980s about a dying cop with a secret, trying to do a heist. Now there’s some intriguing ideas in this one.  More

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The Best Lifestyle To Maximize Your Creativity – 2022 edition.

/ Creativity / 6 minutes of reading

I first posted about creatives’ lifestyles back in 2018, and now I’m bringing it forward and updating it, because this topic gets very short shrift when it comes to talking about a creative career. We’ve all survived the first two years of a global pandemic when all of us have been in lockdown for most

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The Ultimate Lifestyle to Maximize Your Creativity – 2022 Edition

/ Creativity, Good Company & Good Examples, Scheduling & Tracking, Stoicism & Perspective / 9 minutes of reading

Continuing my review of the original posts on this site—today’s is an interesting coincidence, as I’ve spent some time in Mastermind groups lately, dealing with this issue.  Authors, particularly new authors, seem to feel that their muse must be constantly fed and watered with a diet rich in variety, experiences, travel, and that living a

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