Technology, Tools & AI

Why You Should Always Fight to Get Back to Your Routine When You’re Knocked Off It

/ Disaster Planning, Discipline & Motivation, Technology, Tools & AI / 8 minutes of reading

“When jarred unavoidably by circumstance, revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep going back to it.” – Marcus Aurelius Have you ever been on a roll–everything is clicking along smoothly? You’re writing regularly and when you should, […]

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How to Never Run Out of Ideas — For Anything

/ Creativity, Technology, Tools & AI / 5 minutes of reading

  Part of being prolific is having a great many ideas for stories, from among which you can pick and choose what inspires you the most. Also part of writing quickly, is having plenty of resources at hand for ideas for characters and settings, story beats, personal ticks and characteristics, and much more. Quirky appearances,

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A Dash Of Inspiration for November

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Scheduling & Tracking, Technology, Tools & AI / 2 minutes of reading

Following up on last week’s post, “How I Got Published, and What I Learned Along The Way“. I mentioned in that post that the book would be part of Kevin J. Anderson’s NaNoWriMo bundle for authors. The bundle is now available, and includes inspirational how-to books from a great many authors you’ll recognize:  Joanna Penn,

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Index Card & Notepad Hacks To Keep You Focused

/ Discipline & Motivation, Technology, Tools & AI / 5 minutes of reading

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 to Really Commit, and MAKE Yourself Write.

/ Scheduling & Tracking, Technology, Tools & AI, Uncategorized / 7 minutes of reading

Do you have a fully developed Production Schedule, with release dates for the next year? Do you still find you’re skipping writing dates, and cramming an entire novel’s worth of writing into ten days before the deadline? Want to know a way around that? This was me up until a couple of weeks ago. The

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