How do you decide when you’re going to write? Do you move through your day, hoping time will magically open up when you can sit and scribble a few hundred words on your current manuscript? Do you get to the end of your day and feel frustrated, because you never opened the manuscript at all? […]
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This is part II of a series. You’ll find Part I here. Build a production schedule Your production schedule is different than, but related to, your writing schedule. Your production schedule is a business document. It is a statement of what you intend to publish in the next year—or more, if you want to
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This article was written in 2004, when e-publishing was just getting going and so was a new publishing venture called Ellora’s Cave. I was one of their earlier writers and I have spent the fifteen years since trying to shake off the “erotica author” tag, primarily by trying to teach the difference between erotica and
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How to Write a Novel While You’re Holding Down A Day Job This post first appeared on TracyCooperPosey.com, on June 8, 2013. It was written for other writers, a rare aberration on that site. It was also written two years after I had gone 100% indie. It’s still relevant. -t. Every few weeks I browse
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11 Good Reasons Authors Need To Stay Healthy And Fit No, no, don’t click away! Give me five minutes and hear me out, even if you’re sick to death of hearing about how you should be working out and eating healthy, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah, blah, blah, blah… Staying fit and healthy can boost your writing
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13 Things I Know About Writing Full Time Now I’m Back to Full Time Again First appeared on Tracy Cooper-Posey, January 28, 2016 _______________ I wrote “11 Things I Wish I’d Known About Full Time Writing When I First Started Writing Novels” way back in 2009, when I was forced to full time writing by a
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Whole books have been written and courses have been taught on the art and science of prolificacy. A short post on the essentials can only skim the surface, but each step will offer an entry point to further reading for you (and writing for me). Like fractals, productivity + writing is endlessly complex. There’s always
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This is a four-part series. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four This is a four-part post that I honestly did not intend to be quite this long. Apparently, there is more to the subject that even I realized. You will find Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 here. This week is
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This is a four-part series. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four I promised to step fully onto this smoking lava bed of a subject when I wrote the two parts of Why Bother Writing Lots of Books Quickly? So, I’ve rolled up my sleeves today. Does Fast = Crap? In a word, no.
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I discovered an amazing trick this week, that energized my writing and let me float through the day, no slogging, no groaning, no fighting to keep myself at the desk. Actually, I relearned the trick. Last October, my DH was in a bad traffic accident and as a result, has been forced to take time off
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