PRODUCTIVITY & ORGANIZATION

Why You Should Always Fight to Get Back to Your Routine When You’re Knocked Off It

/ Disaster Planning, Discipline & Motivation, Technology, Tools & AI / 8 minutes of reading

“When jarred unavoidably by circumstance, revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep going back to it.” – Marcus Aurelius Have you ever been on a roll–everything is clicking along smoothly? You’re writing regularly and when you should, […]

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Do You Need Transition Time in Your Schedule?

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Scheduling & Tracking / 6 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

  Last week I spoke at length about stashing your time–well, stashing anything you can, actually, as a hedge against the vagaries of the publishing industry. Stashing time is a matter of deliberately working ahead of your production schedule.  (And if you don’t have a production schedule–a timetable of releases–then you’re missing the backbone of

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The Last Remaining Temptation Of Indie Authors

/ Discipline & Motivation, Stoicism & Perspective / 6 minutes of reading

The indie publishing industry has provided for indie authors a great many of the benefits that were once the province of traditional publishing only. There is very little these days a traditional publisher can give an indie author that his indie career is not already providing in spades. In many respects, indie publishing imparts even

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Weekly Log – November 19, 2019: Calm Waters At Last

/ Scheduling & Tracking / 2 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

This week’s log: Monday:  Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: 4,561 words. Saturday:  4,707 words. So, after the flurry of the last few weeks, and me very (not so) smartly trying to juggle two books at once, I’m back to one at a time, and thoroughly enjoying myself.  The words are flowing. It

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You’re NOT Slow. (You’re Not Fast, Either).

/ Creativity, Good Company & Good Examples, Stoicism & Perspective / 5 minutes of reading

I’ve been forcibly reminded, lately, of just how fast I write.  And just how fast everyone else writes. I’ve been spending some time mixing with real live writers (as opposed to hanging out on-line), and that is where the reminders have popped up.  The inevitable question that is raised, when mixing with writers, is “and

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Weekly Log – November 5, 2019: Ramping up

/ Scheduling & Tracking / 1 minute of reading

This week’s log: Monday:  Plotting & Worldbuilding Tuesday: Plotting & Worldbuilding Wednesday: Plotting & Worldbuilding Thursday: Plotting & Worldbuilding Friday: Plotting & Worldbuilding Saturday: Plotting & Worldbuilding For a total of 0 words for the week. Just like last week, this was expected.  The word count should ramp up this week. t. [fusion_separator style_type=”shadow” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility”

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