This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Do you need a production schedule? If you are a writer, and you have any commercial ambitions at all, then yes, you do. A well-built production schedule will help you stop the overwhelm, restore your sanity, and give you a proper […]
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How do you decide when you’re going to write? Do you move through your day, hoping time will magically open up when you can sit and scribble a few hundred words on your current manuscript? Do you get to the end of your day and feel frustrated, because you never opened the manuscript at all?
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I spent two weeks explaining how it was possible to train yourself to be prolific. Writing more words per hour is just a small part of the overall strategies that a prolific writer needs to employ, but it’s the one that gets the most resistance. After all, it’s not like you deliberately dawdle when
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Eight months ago (an ice age in the indie world), I appeared on Dave Chesson’s Kindlepreneur podcast, talking about the pros of using a wide distribution, while a KU author discussed the pros of the KU program. Dave invited me back to talk in far greater details about going wide and that interview is out
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In my weekly log this week, I mentioned that I have six books in production, as well as the one I’m currently writing. I don’t know if it’s the terminology or the concept that confuses people, but I thought I would expand upon this part of my writing production schedule, because it has huge
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Ever written a book that just fell out of you? I’m not talking about pedal-down, deliberately sprinting through a book to hit a deadline. When you’re at full sprint, you’re going for speed. You’re not writing the story because it won’t let you not write it. I mean, have you ever written a book that
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This is a four-part series. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four This is a four-part post that I honestly did not intend to be quite this long. Apparently, there is more to the subject that even I realized. You will find Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 here. This week is
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This is a four-part series. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four All the Daytime Disguises of “Fast = Crap” This is Part 3 of a series. You can find Part 1 and Part 2 here. ___ Let’s examine some of the facets of “Fast = Crap”. As I mentioned in Part 1,
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This is a four-part series. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Last week I ran through a few of the points that define the mythology that writing fast means writing crap, and how pervasive it is. This week, I want to spin the dial and have a look at this mythology through
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