Inspiration for Indie Writers: 20 Quotes to Keep You Writing (Even When It’s Hard)
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Discipline & Motivation
Writing Through Disfluency: How to Embrace the Grind and Keep Moving Forward
Writing is hard. Some days, it’s staring at a blank page until your soul starts to shrivel. Other days, it’s forcing words onto the page that feel as clunky as a toddler’s first steps. This difficulty, though, isn’t a bug in the system—it’s a feature. What you’re experiencing is disfluency, the grinding friction that comes when creativity refuses to flow like a perfect algorithm. But here’s the kicker: disfluency isn’t just a hurdle to clear; it’s the point of the creative process.
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Discipline: The Secret Sauce to Indie Author Success
When we say that, “discipline is destiny,” this is what we mean—that discipline is both predictive and deterministic. It predetermined that Marcus would not only be a great emperor, but a great man too. Just as it assured that the final chapters for the cautionary tales of history—Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, King George
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Two Modes of Self-Awareness: Your Key to Unlocking Creativity
Let’s talk about something super important: self-awareness. Being aware of what’s happening in your mind is a powerful tool that can help you grow as a writer. It’s about noticing your thoughts, feelings, and reactions without judgment. This kind of self-awareness can guide you to make better decisions, improve your craft, and stay motivated. For
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Change Your Story, Change Your Writing Life
Do you ever catch yourself thinking, “I’ll never sell,” or “I’m not talented enough”? If so, you’re not alone. We’ve all been there, doubting our abilities and waiting for some magical moment when we finally get chosen. But guess what? That thinking is backward! If we believe that it’s not our turn, that we’re not
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Busy Is Good. Busy is GREAT.
How often do you think, even in the back of your brain, “I’m too busy to write!”? Especially if you are working any sort of alternative revenue stream, or have a day job, writing becomes much easier to off-load with the justification that this thing over here is paying the bills and deserves your attention.
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A New Type of Sprint! — Graduated Word Sprints.
One of the most-visited posts on this site is “5 Types Of Writing Sprints – And Why You Need This Tool“, with “Tailor Writing Sprints to Maximize Flow” a close second, along with “Increasing Your Hourly Word Rate“. They all deal with word sprints. Word Sprints are exactly what they sound like. Writing at maximum
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The Definitive “Just Start” Strategy To Get You Writing.
Just Starting is a way around procrastinating, a way to make yourself write when you should. I mention “Just Start” a lot because it works. It is one of my most effective…tools. Hacks. Tactics. I’ve spoken about it here, here, and here, and more indirectly in many other posts on The Productive Indie Fiction Writer.
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I am a perfect machine. My self-discipline is extraordinary.
I had an interesting chat with an author the other day. They said, in part, “I’m not sure if I’m relieved or worried that an author as advanced as you still brings up the fact that she also has problems with this self-discipline thing.” This was in response to my post about self-discipline. I was
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A Powerful Tactic to Achieve Almost Anything
We indie fiction writers are shafted by the nature of our business. Nearly everything we do takes forever. A novel can take weeks or months (or years!) to write. Building your back catalogue takes years. Marketing is a long term strategy that takes months or years to pay off. Once you’ve figured out what habits
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