One of the most-visited posts on this site is “5 Types Of Writing Sprints – And Why You Need This Tool“, with “Tailor Writing Sprints to Maximize Flow” a close second, along with “Increasing Your Hourly Word Rate“. They all deal with word sprints. Word Sprints are exactly what they sound like. Writing at maximum […]
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A quick post today, which bounces off my post earlier in the year, “What Your 2023 Business Year will Look Like…Maybe“ Anne R. Allen, who is an expert in author blogging, recently ran a post on her site, “Why Blogging is Essential in the Era of Fragmenting Social Media.” The very last point in her
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In January, I generally like to post about goals for the coming year, goal-setting, and motivation. But I’ve come across a bunch of articles and reports lately that speculate on what 2023 and onward might look like for indie authors, and realized that goal setting is useless, if you don’t have a good idea of
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Continuing on from yesterday with the next seven reasons why you should write lots of fiction, as quickly as possible. 8. One sucky book is not the end of your business. This is related to the previous two points. Sometimes, you have to cut your losses. I have a few books like this. I wandered
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YouTube allowed creators to monetize their channels a few years ago. That resulted in an ocean of video content being uploaded A great deal of that content is information or instructional in nature. If ever you wonder where the how-to blogs all went to (remember those?), then browse YouTube for 20 minutes, and type “writing
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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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Writing sprints, as reintroduced by Chris Fox in his book, 5,000 Words Per Hour, is one of the most useful tools for increasing your hourly word count. I use them regularly to increase my words per hour rate. I don’t use them all the time, for a number of reasons. I will go back
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Here’s a simple experiment you can try today and it only takes 30 minutes. Open up the book you’re currently writing. Grab a timer — IOS, Windows and Android all have built in timers/clock functions that can act as stopwatches and timers. If you don’t have one installed, there are a ton of free apps
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If you keep word count logs–and if you aspire to be a prolific writer you absolutely should be keeping word logs–then you have probably noticed that over time your word count per hour slowly diminishes. There are a few reasons this happens. Because there is no pressure while you are writing, you get slower
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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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