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Why Indie Authors Need Downtime (And How to Actually Get It)

/ Creativity, Indie Health, Longevity & Wellness, INDIE PUBLISHING, Scheduling & Tracking / 5 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

As an indie author, you’re not just a writer. You’re a marketing department, an editor, a publisher, a social media manager, and possibly the person who has to remember to water the plants. All this juggling means burnout is more than a risk—it’s almost a guarantee if you’re not actively carving out downtime. And yet, downtime isn’t laziness or time wasted. It’s the fuel that keeps the creative engine running and prevents that ugly beast called burnout from knocking on your door.

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Don’t Wait for A Crisis To Figure Out Your Priorities

/ Disaster Planning, Discipline & Motivation, Stoicism & Perspective / 4 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

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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How To Use Tiny Habits To Make Yourself Write, Every Single Time.

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Prolificacy, Stoicism & Perspective / 6 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

  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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A More Deadly Weapon Against Distractions

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Prolificacy, Stoicism & Perspective / 2 minutes of reading

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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Distractions Always Happen, and You Aren’t ‘Less Than’ Because of Them

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Stoicism & Perspective / 3 minutes of reading

  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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Weekly Log – May 29, 2018

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  Because I dared speak aloud, last week, of steady progress and boring weeks, I got this past week for my efforts. Last week’s log: MONDAY 0 TUESDAY 0 WEDNESDAY 0 THURSDAY 0 FRIDAY 6,551 SATURDAY 0 On the positive side, the run of zeroes is not because my inner brat got the better of me.

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Another Perspective On the Living Well Balance.

/ Discipline & Motivation, Scheduling & Tracking / 2 minutes of reading

I seem to have referred to living well a lot lately, here on the blog and in the newsletter.  I know I’m doing it to compensate for the constant barrage of “be productive!” messaging that is the theme of this site. But I’m also aware that I’m an anal productivity obsessionist, and I’m compensating for

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