Just a quick post this week. I’m getting back into the working groove and suddenly becoming (re)aware of the plethora of distractions that can lure you away from your manuscript–especially when you’re working at home, which is pretty much all of us right now. When you’re at home, you don’t have people looking over your […]
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Words used to flow easily for me. Not so much, these days. I — like you, I am sure — am struggling to get words down in a regular manner. The puzzling thing for me was why am I struggling? I’m not sick. No one in my immediate family is sick (thanks to whoever
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The indie publishing industry has provided for indie authors a great many of the benefits that were once the province of traditional publishing only. There is very little these days a traditional publisher can give an indie author that his indie career is not already providing in spades. In many respects, indie publishing imparts even
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This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: 4,561 words. Saturday: 4,707 words. So, after the flurry of the last few weeks, and me very (not so) smartly trying to juggle two books at once, I’m back to one at a time, and thoroughly enjoying myself. The words are flowing. It
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I’ve been forcibly reminded, lately, of just how fast I write. And just how fast everyone else writes. I’ve been spending some time mixing with real live writers (as opposed to hanging out on-line), and that is where the reminders have popped up. The inevitable question that is raised, when mixing with writers, is “and
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One of the most powerful techniques for increasing your word count is, simply, don’t click away. Avoid as much as you can alt+tabbing or clicking away from your manuscript. Interruptions chew up time, throw you out of flow and have the potential to divert you completely away from your story. BUT Particularly when you first start
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This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting + 4,945 words Thursday: 10,239 words Friday: 10,205 words Saturday: 10,505 words Sunday: 10,063 words For a total of 45,957 words for the week. So, I caught up, as promised. Big time. 45K+ words in a week is more than my weekly word count on a full
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When you write and release lots of books, the costs associated with publishing those books increases at the same scale…or does it? How do you handle the costs of writing and publishing lots of books? Economies of Scale. When you’re producing many books, there are economies of scale available to you that two-books-a-year authors can’t
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It’s tricky calling any period in British history as Arthurian. Authorities who date such eras look at the records of the day to determine the political leaders, and from this evidence eras are given their name. But Arthur, if he even existed, lived in the Dark Ages — and the Dark Ages are given their name because
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In my article, “How to Write a Novel While You’re Holding Down A Day Job“, I mentioned that amongst the search terms I find in my blog stats is a huge number of queries centered upon the question “Can/how do you make money writing erotica/erotic romance, and how much?” I promised to answer that general
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