And How to Keep It There. This is part One of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). ____________________ I received an email from a PIFW reader a few weeks ago, asking me how I managed to stay on top of my emails. She knew how busy I was, yet I always […]
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You don’t have to be working at writing fiction for long before you get to hear about NaNoWriMo. The National Novel Writing Month is simply a personal challenge that you can make as public as you like, to write and complete a novel manuscript in the month of November. If the whole idea of writing
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Sneak Peek: Excerpt from The Productive Indie Fiction Writer We’re only a couple of weeks away from the release of The Productive Indie Fiction Writer on Stories Rule Press (which is my bookstore). Here’s a look inside the book. Excerpt from The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well.
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A Productive Indie Book! Last month, I took a bit of a break, and also mentioned that I was working on something that I would tell you about soon. As the image, above, has probably told you, that something is the first PIFW book. I’ve been getting back to a more productive writing schedule, and
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Why You Should Pick Your Priorities …and Stick With Them. Farnam Street have a post in their archives, “Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change” that is worth a slow read through. Seeking out novelty and noticing change was a survival instinct that doesn’t serve us in modern times, because everything is new and novel
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Still Slow…but continuing. This is an update to my October 2022 post, “Slowing…But Not Stopping.” In that post I summarized all the health issues I had suffered through in 2022 (a lot) and their root cause, a rare form of cancer. In that post I also warned you that my post schedule on PIFW would
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Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Katherine Rusch call life derailing events “life rolls”. It’s a useful name for a whole host of troubles: Sickness, death of loved ones, disasters, accidents, divorces, getting fired… We’re writers of fiction; we can easily imagine what life rolls might look like. When you’re hit by a serious life roll,
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“I used to tell interviewers that I wrote every day except for Christmas, the Fourth of July, and my birthday. That was a lie. I told them that because if you agree to an interview you have to say something, and it plays better if it’s something at least half-clever. Also, I didn’t want to
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Okay, Already, I’ll Try Obsidian! Because I CAN Listen. A while ago, I wrote about my disappointing live trial of Notion, and how I happily returned to OneNote. Buried in the text as a throwaway line was the fact that I did try to use Obsidian, but found it counter-intuitive and too difficult to quickly
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Actually, I lied. This hack is simple in concept. But it’s not simple to execute. But, man, is it worth the effort! This hack will energize your writing and let you float through the day, no slogging, no groaning, no fighting to keep yourself at the desk. My story Three years ago, my DH was
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