Something a little bit different today. I was recently invited to join a how-to anthology scheduled to publish shortly before NaNoWriMo month, for this year’s entrants to take advantage of. While the anthology was still in production, it was picked up by Kevin J. Anderson for his NaNoWriMo StoryBundle, and the release date advanced by
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Just in the last few weeks, economists and financial experts have been throwing around the dreaded “R” word. Recession. To be clear, they’re speaking of the USA heading toward a recession. However, it doesn’t really matter where you sit on the globe, a recession in the USA tends to reach out and clobber a whole
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There are very few drawbacks to indie publishing. Challenges, certainly, but the independent author tends to thrive on challenges and prefer it that way. Hard work aplenty, too. Downsides, not so much. Most of the “downsides” you see reported elsewhere, we consider positives: Having no one else to rely upon but ourselves is a good
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Writing sprints, as reintroduced by Chris Fox in his book, 5,000 Words Per Hour, is one of the most useful tools for increasing your hourly word count. I use them regularly to increase my words per hour rate. I don’t use them all the time, for a number of reasons. I will go back
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I have bought all the Stone Tablet Singles that Sean Platt, Johnny Truant and Dave Wright have put out so far, but this particular one I resisted. That’s because my mind was made up. I have, over the last decade, given dictation four serious tries. I mean, two or three books’ worth of trial, with
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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
