If you only read this blog of mine, and not any of my author blogs or social media, then it might have seemed like everything was ticking along nicely here. In actual fact, for several weeks now I have been working through a personal health crisis, utterly unable to spare any attention to The Productive […]
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Indie Authors Take Note: NOW is the time to prioritize your health! Don’t leave it until tomorrow, the way I did. I’ve been having a few health challenges lately. I’ve murmured in public once or twice over the last year about pinched nerves and back issues, in particular, my neck, which was giving me a
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Okay, Already, I’ll Try Obsidian! Because I CAN Listen. A while ago, I wrote about my disappointing live trial of Notion, and how I happily returned to OneNote. Buried in the text as a throwaway line was the fact that I did try to use Obsidian, but found it counter-intuitive and too difficult to quickly
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Actually, I lied. This hack is simple in concept. But it’s not simple to execute. But, man, is it worth the effort! This hack will energize your writing and let you float through the day, no slogging, no groaning, no fighting to keep yourself at the desk. My story Three years ago, my DH was
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Following these suggestions will give you a “clean” MS Word file that compiles to ePub and Mobi without mysterious blank pages and extra lines in it, and with chapter headings properly formatted. If you use compilers such as Jutoh, Atticus or Vellum, the clean file will also reduce bad results when you import to those
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This might be another of those moments 2007 was the year Amazon released their first Kindle eReader, and indie publishing took a light-year’s leap forward. I’ve often wondered if I would be any more successful if I’d jumped into indie publishing in 2007, rather than waiting another four years to commit. If you’ve ever said anything
10 Unexpected Ways Writing Fiction Helps Readers It’s MUCH More Than Simply Entertainment If you’ve written and published a lot of fiction, there’s a good chance that somewhere along the way you’ve had a dark night of soul–where you’ve questioned why on earth you’re putting yourself through this torture day after day, only to hear
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5 Powerful Reasons Why Indie Fiction Writers Should Keep Work Logs They’re not sexy, but essential if you want to get more written Is there anything more geeky than a fiction writer keeping a word count log? I mean, we know when the novel is finished when we reach the end of the story. At
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Continuing on from yesterday with the final seven reasons why you should write lots of fiction, as quickly as possible. 15. You improve faster. I’ve actually seen this idea phrased as “fail faster”, but there’s really no such thing as “failure” in writing, unless failure is used as a euphemism for quitting. There are books
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Continuing on from yesterday with the next seven reasons why you should write lots of fiction, as quickly as possible. 8. One sucky book is not the end of your business. This is related to the previous two points. Sometimes, you have to cut your losses. I have a few books like this. I wandered
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