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Why Indie Authors Need Downtime (And How to Actually Get It)

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As an indie author, you’re not just a writer. You’re a marketing department, an editor, a publisher, a social media manager, and possibly the person who has to remember to water the plants. All this juggling means burnout is more than a risk—it’s almost a guarantee if you’re not actively carving out downtime. And yet, downtime isn’t laziness or time wasted. It’s the fuel that keeps the creative engine running and prevents that ugly beast called burnout from knocking on your door.

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A Productive Indie Book!

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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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5 Powerful Reasons Why Indie Fiction Writers Should Keep Work Logs

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5 Powerful Reasons Why Indie Fiction Writers Should Keep Work Logs They’re not sexy, but essential if you want to get more written Is there anything more geeky than a fiction writer keeping a word count log? I mean, we know when the novel is finished when we reach the end of the story.  At

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Four Ways to Efficiently Maintain Your Backlist, No Matter How Long It Is

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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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One of best reasons to write faster (and it’s not what you think)

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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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How to Create A Writing Schedule You Can Live With – 2022 Edition.  Part Two.

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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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How to Create A Writing Schedule You Can Live With – 2022 Edition.  Part One.

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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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