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Productivity Tip #7—KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WRITING & EDITING Write during the writing stage. Edit during the editing stage. Even though both activities involve a writer sitting at the keyboard staring at the screen, Writing and Editing are two very different processes. Each one requires a separate set of skills and talents; each uses a […]

Writing Productivity Tip #5: Use Every Minute If you think you need large blocks of time to accomplish any writing, then you’re kidding yourself. One sentence at a time, one paragraph at a time, one page at a time. Sure, we’d all love extended, uninterrupted hours to do nothing but sit and think, to write […]

Reposting a series of tips I published for last year’s NaNoWriMo— Writing Productivity Tip #3—WORK ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS AT THE SAME TIME This one works best for people with ADD, or low boredom thresholds!  (And it doesn’t work for everybody.) Each writing project has many phases: research, plotting, writing the first draft, doing the rough […]

Here’s the first chapter in my new holiday story featuring Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., “Naughty & Nice.”  If you enjoy it, you can read the whole story for only 99¢ 1 Santa Claus was an unnatural. That made perfect sense—I just hadn’t thought of it before. The jolly bearded guy in the bright-red suit came […]