I’ve spent years obsessing over balancing my work and the rest of my life. All the media reports convinced me many years ago that having a life is actually, you know, important. But I love writing. And I have way too many stories in my head. The idea of slowing down and not writing all […]
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As you can imagine, I read a lot of productivity books. Every month, more of them pop up. And over the last year or so I’ve noticed a trend in the common philosophy of many of them. It is the tiny habit approach to productivity. And I can’t tell you how much that trend
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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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Most writers procrastinate about writing because (most often) they don’t have a good enough handle on their story. Others doubt themselves and think their writing sucks, or fear success, and twitter away their time for those reasons. Then there are writers who have reached a point where they loathe writing. If you’ve never hated
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If you’ve lost your get-up-and-go and loathe the idea of writing, you might be tempted to self-diagnose and decide you’re suffering from burnout. Alas, this might merely be yet another creative form of resistance. I’ve seen several group discussions lately, where “burnout” is tossed around casually, as a reason why writers don’t write. But
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Last week’s log: MONDAY: 0 words TUESDAY: 8,833 WEDNESDAY: 6,476 words THURSDAY: 6,116 words FRIDAY: 7,615 words For a total of 29,040 words for the week. Last week I gave you the impression that I was under severe pressure to get things done before the end of the year. Actually, before December 11, when relatives
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Why have “productive” in The Productive Indie Fiction Writer? There are a zillion productivity blogs, books, courses, support groups. I know that because I follow an awful lot of them myself. My library is jammed with productivity books and advice–some of which I even follow. In relationship to indie fiction writing, though, “productive” has a
