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28 Nov

Writing Productivity Tip #3—WORK ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS AT THE SAME TIME

Posted by Kevin J. Anderson | Advice, Blogging, Business, Dune, Novels, Process, Publicity, Writing |

A series of eleven tips to help you get more time for writing, and to produce more writing when you do have 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 edit, polishing the final edit, copyediting, proofreading, and the marketing and business. Since some of these tasks are more onerous than others, I keep several different projects on the creative burner at all times at different stages. Personally, I love the creative explosion of...
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27 Nov

Writing Productivity Tip #2—DEFY THE EMPTY PAGE

Posted by Kevin J. Anderson | Advice, Blogging, Business, Novels, Process, Writing |

A series of eleven tips to help you get more time for writing, and to produce more writing when you do have time. In any project, the most difficult word to type is often the first one. With a 500 page novel looming ahead of you, or even a 15-page short story, getting started can be like trying to push a semi truck with two fingers (your typing fingers). Staring at the empty page, or the blank screen, is an intimidating experience. But if you figure out how to facilitate getting the first word—and then the first sentence, and then...
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26 Nov

Writing Productivity Tip #1—SHUT UP AND WRITE!

Posted by Kevin J. Anderson | Writing |

The first of eleven tips to help you get more time for writing, and to produce more writing when you do have time. A writer’s Muse is supposed to be a delicate, ethereal woman with a gentle voice who drops hints and ideas that might eventually find their way into a story or a novel. Right? We all know the stereotype. Writers don’t do much more than sit around, mulling over esoterica, occasionally jotting down a phrase or two when the muse inspires them… I, on the other hand, have been blessed (or cursed) with a muse who’s more like...
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25 Nov

Rabbits & Typewriters: On Being Prolific

Posted by Lance Card | Advice, Blogging, Business, Novels, Process, Publicity, Short Stories, Writing |

“I could be a successful writer, too, if only I had the time.” I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard aspiring writers bemoan their lack of time, their inability to get any writing done with distractions, with family and work obligations. Since it’s not likely anyone will give you any more time, in order to be a serious writer you have to find ways to make the most of the time you have, and how to be as productive as possible. Back in the heyday of pulp fiction magazines, when freelancers tried to make a living by writing stories...
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Writing Productivity Tip #3—WORK ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS AT THE SAME TIME

Writing Productivity Tip #2—DEFY THE EMPTY PAGE

Writing Productivity Tip #1—SHUT UP AND WRITE!

Rabbits & Typewriters: On Being Prolific

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