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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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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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! 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. 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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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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Okay, Already, I’ll Try Obsidian! Because I CAN Listen. A while ago, I wrote about my disappointing live trial of Notion, and how I happily returned to OneNote. Buried in the text as a throwaway line was the fact that I did try to use Obsidian, but found it counter-intuitive and too difficult to quickly
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Following these suggestions will give you a “clean” MS Word file that compiles to ePub and Mobi without mysterious blank pages and extra lines in it, and with chapter headings properly formatted. If you use compilers such as Jutoh, Atticus or Vellum, the clean file will also reduce bad results when you import to those
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The One Thing You Cannot Do When You Hit The Dip With Your Novel Do This Instead I’ve written (plus finished and published) over 120 novels, and this is a pattern I’ve detected. Around the one third mark, usually not long after you get into the second act, you’ll be convinced the story is garbage
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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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