The Fine Art of Schedule Compromises: How to Eat Your Cake and Have It, Too. In The Productive Indie Fiction Writer, when I spoke about writing schedules, I made the observation that you can do anything you want…you just can’t do everything you want. In order to keep your daily routine from blowing out, to […]
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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 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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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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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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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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This is Part Two of a post. Part One is here. Last week we looked at the reasons why Overwhelm can dump on you, usually appearing out of the blue. This week, some tactics and strategies to deal with Overwhelm. The key: Regain control. If you’re already at the point of overwhelm, then you don’t
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