AI – The Productive Indie Fiction Writer

Why Now Is the Best Time to Be an Indie Fiction Writer

July 19, 2024 / Futurism, Publishing & Production / 2 Comments

Jane Freidman, at her blog just a few days ago, wrote a post, “Like It or Not, Publishers Are Licensing Books for AI Training—And Using AI Themselves.”

The post is a refreshingly blunt take on how AI is settling into the publishing industry. I will leave it to Jane to explain how, even for indie authors, there is new money to made from the AI phenomenon, if you’re smart and wrangle your contracts.

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What Your Daily Word Count Should Be

May 21, 2021 / Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Prolificacy, Technology, Tools & AI

Michael Crichton is my hero. I only just found out. Here’s why: I get a lot of email from authors asking how many words a day they should be writing. I confess that the question puzzles me and I’ve hedge and hummed and fumbled to find a useful answer because the real answer is: “Whatever

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Just Start — Let’s Revisit This Idea

May 14, 2021 / Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Prolificacy, Technology, Tools & AI

For a long time, now, I have spoken of “Just Starting” (here and here and a lot of other posts, too) as a way of overcoming your resistance to getting into a writing session. The basic approach I have, whenever Resistance shows up, and if I don’t fall prey to it, is to tell myself:

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Another Factor That Might Change Your Mind About Writing to Market

May 7, 2021 / Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Technology, Tools & AI / 1 Comment

There is a class of Indie author mindset out there that promotes prolific writing, using Kindle Unlimited, launching hard, making sure your Amazon Also Boughts are clean, and writing absolutely to market as the only way to make serious money writing fiction. I did buy into that approach for a year or so. It seemed

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