This is a two-part post. Part 1. Part II. _________________ Lately, I’ve come across a few separate opinions on the worth of notebooks for writers that I found interesting. They made me reflect upon the usefulness of notebooks for writers in this hyper-connected, fast-progressing and digitized era. What are notebooks for writers? It might seem
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Keeping Your Inbox at Zero. This is part Four and the final post of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). Last week, I described how you can get your inbox to zero. It’s possible you may still be working on your stash of emails and haven’t yet reached zero, but you
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Getting to Zero The First Time. This is part Three of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). In the last two weeks we’ve looked at why you might want to work toward an empty inbox and keep it that way, and some of the prep and practicalities of managing an empty
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Make Your Life Easier, First. This is part Two of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). Last week, we looked at all the reasons why you might want to work toward an empty inbox at all times. Stress relief, security, and avoiding legal hassles were just a few of them. This
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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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