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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A small ice age ago, when I started this site, I wrote original content for a weekly newsletter attached to this site as well as original content for the site itself. The newsletter didn’t seem to appeal to writers, so I quickly ceased producing it. I’ve had to jump to new email service providers several
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When I first started this site, I was super ambitious, and wrote a post for each weekly newsletter, as well as a full post for the blog, AND the work log each week. All the original posts I wrote for the email newsletter have gone. I don’t have them on my hard drive anymore and
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As you saw last week, I’ve been having health issues. Still. It’s an ongoing, nearing-chronic problem that has kept me from the desk for weeks, and I’m still not putting in what I consider a full day’s work, even as I write this post. I haven’t written any fiction for nearly four weeks. I can
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Last week we looked at what a writing schedule is (and isn’t) and why you would want to use one. This week: How to build your schedule. _____ Your Typical Day The idea with this step is to build a “typical” day. That might mean every day of the week looks different, and you must
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I’m currently working through some of the original posts on this site, which are now several years old, and updating them for the times we currently face, to build in some resilience and flexibility so you can succeed in a future you may not be able to guess the shape of right now. Today’s post
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