When Life Hands You Melons…
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I discovered an amazing trick this week, that energized my writing and let me float through the day, no slogging, no groaning, no fighting to keep myself at the desk. Actually, I relearned the trick. Last October, my DH was in a bad traffic accident and as a result, has been forced to take time off
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To Google something has crept into the language and is now a formal euphamism for searching online. However, Google can do a lot more than just regurgitate search results. There is a ton of useful tools that Google will invoke to provide answers directly on the results page. Google will also provide links to sites
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Waaaay back in April 2011 (a small ice age ago) I wrote a post as part of a blog hop (remember those?) At that time, the post appeared on my romance site, which was the only one I had at the time. I tried very hard not to write writer-centered posts for my romance readers,
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The conventional view of creatives is often that of Bohemians, living on the edge of society and obeying no laws other than those imposed by their muse. Creatives are seen as flaky and unreliable, poor and spiritually free. They live in clusters, supporting and encouraging each other, but seem to spend a lot of
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Have you ever had weeks like mine? As soon as you decide that this week, you are going to nail your schedule, get down a staggering number of words, and finally break through the chapter that has been mocking you for the last three weeks, THAT’s when everything else in your life that you give a
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A short post I wrote for Kobo Writing Life just popped up on their blog, here, entitled “How Going Wide Helped Me Quit My Day Job”. It’s not completely unrelated to productivity. As David Gaughran recently pointed out in his post: “A Tale of Two Marketing Systems,” Wide authors and KU Authors are beginning to show
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