Hitting the Mattresses
Hitting the Mattresses
Because sometimes, I’m behind
…very behind…
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Discipline & Motivation
Is The Indie Fiction Market Over-saturated?
A writer friend of mine asked me this question a few weeks ago, and I found myself answering in great detail. Just in case you were wondering the same thing, here’s my (modified for public access) answer. —- Is the indie fiction market oversaturated? If you look at the whole publishing industry as a monolithic
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Using the Time You Have Now
I came across a journal entry from 2018 recently that made me nod even more fervently than I did when I wrote it. I’ve cleaned it up and add it below for you to ponder upon. About using the time you have, now. I wish, I wish, I wish I had understood this when I
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Do you need to stop and assess? Don’t say yes TOO fast!
As I write this post, I’m looking back at a week of writing that just didn’t happen. Oh, I got a few words down, and I have been focused upon getting the writing done, including a new switch up in routine to keep it fresh. But the first half of the week was a disaster.
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What is your 2021 looking like?
Queen Elizabeth II called 1992 her “Annus Horribilis”. She had endured the collapse of three of her children’s marriages (Anne, Andrew and Charles), a fire that burned down part of Windsor Castle, and other extraordinary stresses. Many people ascribe the invention of the Latin phrase to the Queen, but in fact it was the Roman
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How to Woo Cumulative Advantage
This post is a bit of an outlier, although it does have some relevance to productivity and prolificacy. I read Advantage: Harnessing Cumulative Advantage In The Winner Takes All Publishing Market in one sitting. It’s dense. It has charts and graphs and footnotes. It is not prescriptive (you have to deconstruct it carefully to figure
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Walking the Talk
By rights, I should be settling in to write the next post about productivity. I had it planned — it’s a post about time blocking, and you’ll see that next week. But, as I mentioned in Tuesday’s log post the current book has blown a gasket and is now a runaway train. As I write
What Prolific Should Mean
I’ve had some emails lately asking, more or less, what “fast” really means. Author A, over there, they say, produces a book a week–which is fast by anyone’s estimation. While Author B over here does a book a year and the media laud him as prolific and fabulous. So I thought I’d take another stab
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Try Writing Two Stories At Once
Not in the same instance, of course. But simultaneously across days or weeks. If you find it difficult getting just one story done, you’re probably thinking I’m crazy. A couple of weeks ago, I would have agreed with you. However, in the recent big shake up around here, my schedule also got shaken up to
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The Perfect Conditions to Write Don’t Exist
It feels like my creative brain invents a new way to ease me away from writing every time I identity the last super-sneaky version. I uncovered another mental habit keeping me from writing, the last few weeks, that you might be dealing with yourself. I’ve been deluged with administration stuff lately, with the work of
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