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How to Build A Workable, Useful Production Schedule (and how to use it). Part 2.
This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | How To Set Up Your Production Sheet Last week I went through the many reasons why building yourself a tailored production sheet pays some very nice dividends, both in the long and the short term. You can find that post here.
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How to Build A Workable, Useful Production Schedule (and how to use it). Part 1.
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 to Set Up Your Writing Schedule, Kill Stress and Get Things Done
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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How to write faster, right now. (Prove it in 30 minutes!)
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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More on Going Wide Versus Kindle Unlimited
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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How to Juggle Your Production Schedule So You’re Never Bored.
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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What Do You Do When A Book Won’t Leave You Alone?
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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Does Writing Fast = Crap? Part 4
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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Does Writing Fast = Crap? Part 3
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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