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Puzzle-Piece Scheduling: A Writing Model for the Non-Marathoner

June 20, 2025 / Scheduling & Tracking / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

What if, instead of waiting for those rare marathon writing sessions, you fit your writing into the cracks of your day—one or two hours at a time? Puzzle-Piece Scheduling is about breaking your writing into smaller chunks that still add up to real progress. It’s not about being perfect—it’s about being consistent. Even short sprints can keep your story warm and moving forward.

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The Fine Art of Schedule Compromises

February 23, 2024 / Planning, Scheduling & Tracking / 5 minutes of reading

The Fine Art of Schedule Compromises: How to Eat Your Cake and Have It, Too. In The Productive Indie Fiction Writer, when I spoke about writing schedules, I made the observation that you can do anything you want…you just can’t do everything you want. In order to keep your daily routine from blowing out, to

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How to Set Up Your Writing Schedule, Kill Stress and Get Things Done

July 27, 2018 / Prolificacy, Technology, Tools & AI / 9 minutes of reading

How do you decide when you’re going to write? Do you move through your day, hoping time will magically open up when you can sit and scribble a few hundred words on your current manuscript? Do you get to the end of your day and feel frustrated, because you never opened the manuscript at all?

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