Tag Archives: what not to do
Some Musings on Motivation and #ROW80
And when I say musings, I mean that I’m looking at some things that I’ve done right, and trying to figure out how the hell that happened. There are three big things I’ve done in the last several years that … Continue reading
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#ROW80 Update and Sunday Mashup
My goals this week were to get the book launched, survive getting the book launched, and to not babysit my stats. We’ll call that a 2 out of 3. While I haven’t been as bad about it as I was … Continue reading
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Respect For The Gifts
There’s something that goes on in the writing community that makes me peevish. This comes up for me again because when Kait read Kristen’s post on POV Prostitution, she came to me and said, “I don’t understand how anyone doesn’t … Continue reading
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My Husband Says I Can’t Spell Discipline or How I Have Been Failure’s Bitch
This is a running joke at our house, and the joke’s on me because I did just reference a tab along the top of my screen to check my spelling as I typed this post’s title. Every time the word … Continue reading
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My Second Book Syndrome: Change of Process
So I was trying to think of something to write about today that has to do with the writing life. I should have a ton of stuff. I feel like I learned a ton of stuff as I worked my … Continue reading
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All About You on TweetDeck
I<3 Tweetdeck. I couldn’t manage on Twitter without it. This post is going to be about how/why I use it and a specific column to add, but to get the basics out of the way, TweetDeck is a desktop application … Continue reading
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Writing to a Niche
So again this morning I find myself clicking from an Etsy newsletter to an article, and in that article finding so much that seems to pertain to us indie authors. I should probably have some kind of Etsyish Publishing category … Continue reading
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Running At An Artificial Pace
At the top of the email it reads, “To: Susan” These emails I get from Holly Lisle, I so often wish that I could find them and link you to them, because they’re so often very wise. And, of course … Continue reading
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#ROW80 Check-in: Fail
Snow day #11 for our district and, including weekends, the 22nd straight day of unrelieved parenting. She got up at 4:45am. My husband gets up at 5 to go to work, so I got up too and tried to encourage … Continue reading
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The Next Level? What’s an indie to do?
Today I feel like my brain is going to break. Like, moreso than usual. It all seems pretty straightforward when you start. For the beginning stuff, information is pretty abundant. Write a book. Well, okay, I’ve read a lot about … Continue reading
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