Indie Health, Longevity & Wellness

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

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

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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Slowing…but not stopping.

/ Disaster Planning, HOUSEKEEPING, Housekeeping, Indie Health, Longevity & Wellness / 5 minutes of reading / 2 Comments

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 Take Note:  NOW is the time to prioritize your health!

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Indie Authors Take Note:  NOW is the time to prioritize your health! Don’t leave it until tomorrow, the way I did. I’ve been having a few health challenges lately.  I’ve murmured in public once or twice over the last year about pinched nerves and back issues, in particular, my neck, which was giving me a

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Ramp Up Your Creativity and Write Lots More With One Simple Hack

/ Discipline & Motivation, Indie Health, Longevity & Wellness, INDIE PUBLISHING, PRODUCTIVITY & ORGANIZATION / 3 minutes of reading

Actually, I lied.  This hack is simple in concept.  But it’s not simple to execute. But, man, is it worth the effort!  This hack will energize your writing and let you float through the day, no slogging, no groaning, no fighting to keep yourself at the desk. My story Three years ago, my DH was

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Don’t Look Down

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I’ve had severe health issues that stretch back nearly a year, now. I lost an entire month of work because of it, and more days off here and there because of complications. At one point, while COVID was at its most severe, I risked going to the ER, believing that I had either pancreatic cancer

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