The One Thing You Cannot Do When You Hit The Dip With Your Novel Do This Instead I’ve written (plus finished and published) over 120 novels, and this is a pattern I’ve detected. Around the one third mark, usually not long after you get into the second act, you’ll be convinced the story is garbage […]
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3 Reasons Why You’re Giving Up on Indie Publishing Too Soon And 2 reasons why you SHOULD walk away. I’m an old hand at indie publishing (11 years, last March), so I’m kinda puzzled by the attitude I keep stumbling over…well, everywhere. Zulie Rane, in her Medium article, “5 Uber-Popular Passive Income Streams That Aren’t Worth the
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This is an update of an original post from 2018. You can spend a lot of time teaching yourself to resist Resistance, to get your ass in the chair, to be productive. It’s a never-ending challenge. There is a flip side, though. I’m looking at it right now. If you’re following my work logs, you
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Another essential tool in the prolific author’s toolbox.
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You don’t have a lot of time to write during the day. Just a hour or a tad more, because you’ve got commitments and a life and bills that keep showing up. (We took down our mailbox…they still showed up via email.) Every minute of your writing time is precious. But everything and everyone is
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There have been any number of gurus and productivity experts out there who hawk their solutions as “painless” and “easy”. It makes sense to make a new system or app sound completely effortless, because it sells. Unfortunately, if an app or system or hack really is effortless to use, then it doesn’t do anything. Anything
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When I first started this site, I was super ambitious, and wrote a post for each weekly newsletter, as well as a full post for the blog, AND the work log each week. All the original posts I wrote for the email newsletter have gone. I don’t have them on my hard drive anymore and
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This is a reworked and revised version of a post that originally appeared on this blog on February 9th, 2018. It’s still relevant—even more so, in this distraction-filled suddenly-structure-free world we’re in. New Year’s Resolutions are complete crap. They simply do not work. But they’re very tempting. New year, fresh start, no stains on the
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I’m holding a series of one-off Mastermind-styled meetings on Zoom throughout January & February. These will be structured meetings with a maximum of five people. Each author in their turn will explain what problem(s) they want to solve, or what goals they want to reach this year, and the group will help figure out possible
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Bringing forward and updating one of my original posts from back when I first started the blog. Oh, and Happy New Year! — t. _________ Have you ever had weeks like mine? As soon as you decide that this week, you are going to nail your schedule, get down a staggering number of words, and finally
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