If you’re drowning — and we’ve all been there — there are some triage tactics you can employ to stop your embolism for 24 hours. I am a huge fan of Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits blog. Quite a while ago, he ran a post on exactly that. “When You Have Too Much To Do” outlines […]
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One of the earliest prolific authors to inspire me was Isaac Asimov. In particular, his Opus. I can only link to the book on Goodreads, as it’s very difficult to find. The edition I had when I was in Australia was an omnibus that included Opus 100 and Opus 200. Even the introduction to Opus 100 is an ode
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One of the most powerful techniques for increasing your word count is, simply, don’t click away. Avoid as much as you can alt+tabbing or clicking away from your manuscript. Interruptions chew up time, throw you out of flow and have the potential to divert you completely away from your story. BUT Particularly when you first start
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How healthy are you? Before your eyes glaze over and you click away, first take a moment to do a simple thought experiment. The last time you binge watched anything, or went to the cinema, sat through the pre-show, the trailers, the advertisements and then two hours+ of movie…how did you feel when you got
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Quite a while ago, I sent out a Sunday email to the newsletter list, talking about incorporating sick & play time into your production schedule. Unfortunately, that email has been lost because of a sudden move to a different email service provider, with no chance to recover archived emails. I’ve referred to sick & play
An author’s lot has never been easy. Historically, very few authors out of the millions who have attempted to write for a living ever reached that ambition. The explosion of the indie publishing industry, which really hit its stride around 2010/2011, made it much easier for far more authors to made decent money. All it
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Here’s a simple experiment you can try today and it only takes 30 minutes. Open up the book you’re currently writing. Grab a timer — IOS, Windows and Android all have built in timers/clock functions that can act as stopwatches and timers. If you don’t have one installed, there are a ton of free apps
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There was an interesting discussion over at the KillZone on the weekend, initiated by a post by James Scott Bell (one of my author heroes); “Should You Write Dreck?“. I’ll let you check that out — and maybe wander over to the Joe Konrath post that kicked off James Scott Bell, too. I thought it
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If you’re not already addicted to journaling, then you are probably like me: You can’t figure out why on earth you’d waste the time. Why not use the time dedicated journalists waste, and write fresh manuscript, instead? For me, writing fiction often helps me resolve issues in my own life, as my characters sort
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Do you have a fully developed Production Schedule, with release dates for the next year? Do you still find you’re skipping writing dates, and cramming an entire novel’s worth of writing into ten days before the deadline? Want to know a way around that? This was me up until a couple of weeks ago. The
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