Your favourite writing software can disappear, break, become too expensive, or simply become too painful to use. Tech independence doesn’t mean giving up the tools you love. It means protecting your data, keeping it portable, and making sure you can leave when you need to.
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Not all writing days are the same, except on your calendar. Some days are for maintaining momentum. Some are dependable workhorse days. And every once in a while, a unicorn shows up. Here’s why recognizing which kind of writing day you’re having can make you more productive—and considerably less inclined to beat yourself up over your word count.
Indie publishing has changed dramatically—and the strategies that once worked reliably are no longer enough. The Indie Author Survival Guide is out now, with a practical look at what changed, what authors can still control, and how to build a writing career sturdy enough to survive whatever the industry throws at us next.
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One of the oldest arguments in publishing is whether writers should write quickly. Solar Sail Theory approaches the question from a different direction. Every book you publish becomes a discoverability asset: another doorway for readers, another wake spreading across the internet, and another opportunity for luck to find you. Fast(er) writers don’t just produce more books—they build bigger sails.
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Your writing system probably won’t fail all at once—it’ll decay, one small glitch at a time, until the tool you rely on starts slowing you down instead of supporting you. When that happens, the real solution isn’t finding a replacement that works the same way—it’s rethinking how your system works entirely. Here’s what OneNote’s decline taught me about rebuilding a writing workflow that’s faster, more flexible, and far more resilient.
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Excerpt: Writers don’t usually suffer from a lack of ideas—we suffer from too many. Between errands, reminders, story ideas, and random questions, our brains can become so cluttered that writing feels impossible. Here’s how a simple five-minute “brain dump” can clear the mental noise, help you focus, and get you back into the flow of writing.
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Excerpt: Fourteen exclusive books and one workshop, all packed with up-to-date advice for indie writers navigating 2026—from writing faster and smarter to marketing, Kickstarter, newsletters, and surviving the modern publishing landscape. Available for a limited time, the Write Stuff StoryBundle also supports World Central Kitchen, so you can help your writing career and do some good at the same time.
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When writing starts to drag, the problem often isn’t laziness or lack of discipline — it’s that you’ve lost sight of what you’re writing toward. In this post, I explore the “magic cookie” method: finding the one scene, moment, or beat in your story that excites you enough to pull you through the difficult middle. Because sometimes the best cure for procrastination is knowing there’s something wonderful waiting a few chapters ahead.
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Safe writing used to feel like the smart choice. Study the market. Follow the trends. Give readers more of what they already liked.
But in a world where AI can produce endless same-but-different stories, safe writing is becoming the riskiest strategy of all.
Readers do not know what they want until they see it. They cannot ask for the strange combination, the odd obsession, or the idea that should not work but somehow does. That is your advantage. The books that stand out now will not be the safest ones. They will be the ones only you could have written.
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The voice that breaks your writing streak doesn’t show up on a bad day.
It shows up after a good one—and tells you to take tomorrow off.
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