I came across a journal entry from 2018 recently that made me nod even more fervently than I did when I wrote it. I’ve cleaned it up and add it below for you to ponder upon. About using the time you have, now. I wish, I wish, I wish I had understood this when I […]
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As I write this post, I’m looking back at a week of writing that just didn’t happen. Oh, I got a few words down, and I have been focused upon getting the writing done, including a new switch up in routine to keep it fresh. But the first half of the week was a disaster.
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Only a short post this week as I’m seriously behind. Cal Newport has a long and interesting post about the use of ASMR in Immersive Single Tasking. (Along with a retro image of Bob Ross painting, which was what caught my attention in the first place.) Immersive Single Tasking is the new sexy in productivity,
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Compiling your book into ePub and Mobi requires that the manuscript be in a text editor of some sort. It doesn’t matter if you use Vellum or Jutoh, or one of the many other epub compilers, or if you upload your book direct to the retailers and let them do the heavy lifting, you still
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This post is a bit of an outlier, although it does have some relevance to productivity and prolificacy. I read Advantage: Harnessing Cumulative Advantage In The Winner Takes All Publishing Market in one sitting. It’s dense. It has charts and graphs and footnotes. It is not prescriptive (you have to deconstruct it carefully to figure
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There’s a “new” time management system doing the rounds, that I was tickled pink to learn I had already been doing all along. Sort of. Cal Newport (Deep Work), has launched his new time block planner, which is a paper planner designed to work with his time block planning system. There is a comprehensive video which
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[2026: I no longer believe direct sales is a strategy only for large catalogues. The indie publishing industry has changed since I wrote this post, six years ago. I believe any indie author, even authors with only one title, can benefit immensely from selling their book directly to readers. Check this post from 2026 for
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A thought that coagulated amongst the craziness of building a new publishing business, while also building a website, while also taking nearly 200 books out of KU and re-releasing them with all booksellers…oh, and maintaining my writing and release schedule: Resist the need for a perfectly cleared off desk. Writing in the midst of chaos,
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Not in the same instance, of course. But simultaneously across days or weeks. If you find it difficult getting just one story done, you’re probably thinking I’m crazy. A couple of weeks ago, I would have agreed with you. However, in the recent big shake up around here, my schedule also got shaken up to
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