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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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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Do you use BookFunnel (BF)? As a prolific author, you should consider this service, and not just because it will save you a ton of time (which it does). I pay a hefty annual subscription to BF, as I’m now in the small publisher bracket. I consider BF to be worth every penny. But the
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I tripped over this one a few weeks ago. Lifehacker, among other respectable sources (here, here and here) and even a Reddit thread, have reported that switching your manuscript to the Comic Sans font makes your words flow unbelievably faster. The much reviled Comic Sans font is apparently very easy on the eyes, especially for
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Hitting the Mattresses
Because sometimes, I’m behind
…very behind…
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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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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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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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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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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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