Another Way to Reach a Flow State Every Time You Write
What if I told you there’s a way to reach a flow state nearly every time you sit down to write?
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The Pros and Cons of Dictating Fiction
Is It Worth the Effort? I’m not entirely sure why I haven’t written a dedicated post about dictation before now. I’ve mentioned it in passing, and it’s come up in discussions, but never in its own spotlight. Maybe that’s because my relationship with dictation has been a bit of a rollercoaster. Let’s just say, I’ve
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A Henry Ford Efficiency You Can Use to Save Time
One of my very first jobs, after I left high school, was data entry. Thirty of us would punch in numbers from thousands of sheets of engineering reports that had been collected for a month, from across the state. Granted, these days, those same engineers would be punching in their own data on a mobile
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How To Get Your Email Inbox to Zero. Part IV
Keeping Your Inbox at Zero. This is part Four and the final post of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). Last week, I described how you can get your inbox to zero. It’s possible you may still be working on your stash of emails and haven’t yet reached zero, but you
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How To Get Your Email Inbox to Zero. Part III
Getting to Zero The First Time. This is part Three of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). In the last two weeks we’ve looked at why you might want to work toward an empty inbox and keep it that way, and some of the prep and practicalities of managing an empty
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How To Get Your Email Inbox to Zero. Part II
Make Your Life Easier, First. This is part Two of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). Last week, we looked at all the reasons why you might want to work toward an empty inbox at all times. Stress relief, security, and avoiding legal hassles were just a few of them. This
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How To Get Your Email Inbox to Zero
And How to Keep It There. This is part One of a series. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4 (last). ____________________ I received an email from a PIFW reader a few weeks ago, asking me how I managed to stay on top of my emails. She knew how busy I was, yet I always
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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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Still Slow…but continuing.
Still Slow…but continuing. This is an update to my October 2022 post, “Slowing…But Not Stopping.” In that post I summarized all the health issues I had suffered through in 2022 (a lot) and their root cause, a rare form of cancer. In that post I also warned you that my post schedule on PIFW would
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How to Get Back to Writing when Life Has Completely Derailed You
Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Katherine Rusch call life derailing events “life rolls”. It’s a useful name for a whole host of troubles: Sickness, death of loved ones, disasters, accidents, divorces, getting fired… We’re writers of fiction; we can easily imagine what life rolls might look like. When you’re hit by a serious life roll,
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