One More Reason To Be A Prolific Writer And why this one will be critical in the future No matter what you write, writing a lot comes with benefits. Authors like Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush make excellent cases for writing quantities of non-fiction. I’ve spent years and written dozens of posts exploring the benefits […]
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How to get rid of habits that screw with your writing. What’s tripping you up? If you constantly find yourself not writing, it’s time to find the tripwire. The best writing ritual in the world won’t overcome a habit-snare hiding among your prayers to muses and your affirmations that you are a brilliant and prolific
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The One Thing You Cannot Do When You Hit The Dip With Your Novel Do This Instead I’ve written (plus finished and published) over 120 novels, and this is a pattern I’ve detected. Around the one third mark, usually not long after you get into the second act, you’ll be convinced the story is garbage
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3 Reasons Why You’re Giving Up on Indie Publishing Too Soon And 2 reasons why you SHOULD walk away. I’m an old hand at indie publishing (11 years, last March), so I’m kinda puzzled by the attitude I keep stumbling over…well, everywhere. Zulie Rane, in her Medium article, “5 Uber-Popular Passive Income Streams That Aren’t Worth the
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I’ve spoken about Backlist Maintenance being a “thing” that productive indie fiction writers must worry about. It is an invisible non-issue for newer indie authors with only a handful of titles. If you have a dozen or more titles, then you know what a time sink it is to, say, scramble to update your bio
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A couple of days ago, I explained why “Backlist Maintenance” should be an ongoing task for indie authors. Only, what is it? Put simply; you review aspects of your older books to ensure they’re up-to-date and correct. There are various ways of organizing these reviews to make the process efficient, which I will cover in
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This is an update of an original post from 2018. You can spend a lot of time teaching yourself to resist Resistance, to get your ass in the chair, to be productive. It’s a never-ending challenge. There is a flip side, though. I’m looking at it right now. If you’re following my work logs, you
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Another essential tool in the prolific author’s toolbox.
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You don’t have a lot of time to write during the day. Just a hour or a tad more, because you’ve got commitments and a life and bills that keep showing up. (We took down our mailbox…they still showed up via email.) Every minute of your writing time is precious. But everything and everyone is
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There have been any number of gurus and productivity experts out there who hawk their solutions as “painless” and “easy”. It makes sense to make a new system or app sound completely effortless, because it sells. Unfortunately, if an app or system or hack really is effortless to use, then it doesn’t do anything. Anything
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