Prolificacy

What to Do with Your Story Now NaNoWriMo is Done

Did you enter NaNoWriMo this year? Did you win?  Congratulations! What is NaNoWriMo? If you haven’t heard of this annual competition before, let me explain quickly; Every November, writers can set themselves the challenge of writing a 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of the month. NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month. The novel […]

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Is This the Year You Write Your Novel In A Month?

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

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!

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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What You Can Learn From Stephen King About Writing More Fiction

“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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What Does Being a Prolific Fiction Writer Really Mean?

What Does Being a Prolific Fiction Writer Really Mean? You might already be prolific. I’ve hammered out a definition for prolific indie fiction writers that doesn’t look quite like any other definition out there. As I talk about prolificacy a lot, I wanted to define it here, as there are a lot of misconceptions (and

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21 Reasons Why You Should Write Lots of Fiction Quickly. (Part 3)

Continuing on from yesterday with the final seven reasons why you should write lots of fiction, as quickly as possible. 15.  You improve faster. I’ve actually seen this idea phrased as “fail faster”, but there’s really no such thing as “failure” in writing, unless failure is used as a euphemism for quitting.  There are books

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21 Reasons Why You Should Write Lots of Fiction Quickly. (Part 2)

Continuing on from yesterday with the next seven reasons why you should write lots of fiction, as quickly as possible. 8.   One sucky book is not the end of your business. This is related to the previous two points. Sometimes, you have to cut your losses.  I have a few books like this.  I wandered

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21 Reasons Why You Should Write Lots of Fiction Quickly. (Part 1)

If you’re not already a prolific fiction author, and the whole idea of writing multiple books a year seems like way too much work, keep reading. If you’re already a prolific author, you might not have thought of all of these advantages, and may not have deliberately applied them as strategies, either. I won’t open

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One More Reason To Be A Prolific Writer

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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