Discipline & Motivation

Diaries, Journals, Notebooks. What’s the difference?

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

“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” ― Flannery O’Connor From <https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/315733-i-write-because-i-don-t-know-what-i-think-until> There’s a lot of hype around journal-writing for authors.  Julia Cameron, in The Artist’s Way, calls journaling ‘Morning Pages’ and credits them with nothing short of creative miracles. In the early twentieth century, authors and writers

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The Antidote to Jealousy, Frustration, Depression and Not Getting Any Writing Done. – Part Two

/ Discipline & Motivation / 8 minutes of reading

This is part two of a series. See Part One In the first post on this short series, I deal with the types of blocks and mental fallacies that can stop you from writing.   The infamous Writer’s Block. At the end of the post, I outlined ways to deal with such blocks.  All the steps

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The Antidote to Jealousy, Frustration, Depression and Not Getting Any Writing Done.

/ Discipline & Motivation / 9 minutes of reading

Part One. I nearly added “Writer’s Block” to the title of this post.  The only reason I didn’t is because there is no such thing as a generic malady that stops writers cold.  “Writer’s Block” is a collective term for a whole heap of issues that writers have to deal with that, if they let

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Discipline Isn’t A Dirty Word (A MetaHack to Rule Them All)

/ Discipline & Motivation / 3 minutes of reading

This site, The Productive Indie Fiction Writer, is dedicated to helping you find hacks and help to make the most of your time, so that you can get more books finished and released. That means every week I talk about mindset and the philosophy of getting more done, plus industry news that impacts the prolific,

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Is The Indie Fiction Market Over-saturated?

/ Discipline & Motivation, Stoicism & Perspective / 11 minutes of reading

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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