My husband bought me Scrivener last week. I could kiss him all over! Writing and plotting tools are my new favorite thing. After battling for months to complete my previous manuscript in MS Word, I downloaded the free version of Scrivener to try with Book Two in my Soul Searchers series, and literally finished it […]
I Use Scrivener Every Single Day — Here’s WHY and HOW
I use Scrivener every single day. It is without a doubt one of my top five “must have” tools because it makes my life easier, makes my work more organized, allows me to work faster and is a delight to use. Scrivener works on both PC and Apple devices. It is incredibly cheap and […]
Have You Tried Scrivener Yet?
Scrivener has changed my writing life. I decided to give Scrivener a try when I committed to writing and FINISHING my first romance novel. To make a long 20-year story short. I had attempted to write a novel several dozen times over the years. Writing non-fiction was/is the way I make my living. Writing fiction […]
Auto Post To Facebook Groups
There are hundreds of Facebook Groups specifically focused on writing, authorship and self-publishing. Many of those groups allow you to “advertise” your Kindle book. If you do a rough count of the number of members these groups have, it comes to well over a million. So? Are you going to ignore a million people who […]
Cold Turkey For Writers
Go Cold Turkey And Write Like A Maniac Are you constantly in a state of distraction? Do you “intend” to write 500, 1000 or even more words everyday, but never even get started? Does your day look like this? Email inbox, a dozen times a day Apps — weight loss, exercise, new and exciting stuff […]
Everything You Need To Know About COLD TURKEY
Everything you need to know about cold turkey. The idiom, the writer’s app, the song, the movie. What does Cold Turkey mean? “Cold turkey” is a term describing the actions of a person who gives up his habit or addiction at a single moment, rather than through gradually easing the process through tapering off […]
ONE Hundred Word Sprints
How many words can you write in 3 to 5 minutes? I have been living through a major life crisis, and for the first time in decades my time is NOT my own. I used to efficiently plow through developing websites, strategizing client marketing campaigns, setting up SEO tactics that worked, and … writing blog […]
How To Solve A Problem So That It Never Becomes A Problem Again
Is something driving you crazy enough to DO something about it? When I was a few decades younger, I would allow little things to drive me crazy for weeks, months or even years. Now that I’m somewhat wiser, I start to catch things that make me agitated and set about to fix “the thing, the […]
How To Use Pocket To Increase Your Productivity
I could kick myself ten times around the block for not having discovered Pocket sooner. The truth is, the pocket icon was sitting undiscovered at the top of my browser screen for several years before I accidentally clicked on it and said “whaaaaat?” Instead of immediately clicking away I took a few minutes to read […]
Your Marketing Plan is a Road Map to Building and Sustaining Your Freelance Writing Business
On the day AFTER Christmas, smart and savvy freelancers, entrepreneurs, and marketing agencies start gearing up for NEXT years Black Friday and Christmas promotions. Some of them are actually looking five to ten years in the future. That’s ONE end of the marketing spectrum. These are the authors and self-publishers I see steadily growing their […]