Do you master your to-do list or does it take control over you? The dreaded to-do list. The long list that every Monday I promise myself I will work hard, obliterate, and crush my to-do list to get down to ZERO. I promise myself I won’t keep rolling things over from day to day yet…Read More
Posts on Writing and Self-Publishing
Are You an Amateur or a Pro?
If you’ve never heard of an author by the name of Steven Pressfield you’re missing out and totally, need to go look him up. He’s a very prolific author who is probably best known for The Legend of Bagger Vance. I knew of him but really got to know him when I watch a Marie…Read More
5 Tips to Spark Your Writing Creativity
Ideas, ideas, where are you? Do you ever find yourself running out of books ideas to fuel your self-publishing career? Staring at a blank page and hoping the ideas will flow. Except they don’t, and you sit there. You spend all your time on Facebook or binge watching a Netflix series while mindlessly eating? Yep,…Read More
Are You Working ON Your Business?
I took a business course years ago, and one thing that stuck with me is he talked about Working ON Your Business not just IN Your business. As a solopreneur, it’s so easy to get sucked into the day-to-day activities of your business. You’re constantly hustling to get everything done in the mere 24 hours…Read More
How to Create Your Self-Publishing Production Schedule
What’s on your self-publishing production schedule? I’ve talked before that part of being a professional writer meant you needed to show up every day (thanks, Steven Pressfield). Showing up every day ready to work your tail off means you need a plan. You need a self-publishing production schedule. You also must hold yourself accountable. Unless…Read More
5 Tips to generate Your next Novel Idea
How Do You Generate Your Next Great Novel Idea? When people find out I’m a writer I often get asked how do I come up with ideas for my fiction books, My answer is an emphatic, I don’t know. They just come to me. It’s not like I sit down at my desk and tell…Read More