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 […]
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 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 […]
I Just Don’t Freaking Want To Do ANYTHING. I Don’t WANT To, and YOU Can’t Make Me!
Arrrrrrg. I don’t feel like writing. I don’t feel like working. I don’t want to DO anything! There are days when I close my morning journal, fire up my computer and I have this BIG list of ONE important thing I NEED to do, have committed to getting done. You know … it’s the one […]
I am an Email BITCH from Hell … And Proud of It!
I am FINALLY gaining control of my email in-box and am freeing up at least an hour a day. I have been overwhelmed with emails for years. I have five different email accounts. Four of them feed into my Fastmail account, an account I have had for over 10 years. I LOVE IT because it […]
Increase Your Ability To Focus With Music
Over the years I have discovered that I either need complete silence to focus OR … surprise, surprise … hard pounding rock, mostly from the 70’s. Music is a great focus tool for helping you focus, but you need to experiment to find out what works and what doesn’t. If you work at home as […]