This post is a bit of an outlier, although it does have some relevance to productivity and prolificacy. I read Advantage: Harnessing Cumulative Advantage In The Winner Takes All Publishing Market in one sitting. It’s dense. It has charts and graphs and footnotes. It is not prescriptive (you have to deconstruct it carefully to figure […]
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By rights, I should be settling in to write the next post about productivity. I had it planned — it’s a post about time blocking, and you’ll see that next week. But, as I mentioned in Tuesday’s log post the current book has blown a gasket and is now a runaway train. As I write
Recently, I wrote a post “What Prolific Should Mean“, and mentioned that there are ways to increase your hourly word rate so that, no matter what speed you’re writing at (dead slow, marathon or white-knuckling it), you’re producing more words per hour than you used to. As this entire site is dedicated to helping you
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[2026: I no longer believe direct sales is a strategy only for large catalogues. The indie publishing industry has changed since I wrote this post, six years ago. I believe any indie author, even authors with only one title, can benefit immensely from selling their book directly to readers. Check this post from 2026 for
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