Love it or hate it, social media promotion is essential for authors. A friend and I were commiserating that social media is so challenging. It’s easy to spend half an hour on Facebook without achieving anything. Neither of us could work out whether social media was worth ...
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Your Bullet Journal: 5 Tips For Self-Publishing Authors
Our writers’ group has several self-publishing authors who happily use a bullet journal. So, in our last meeting, we discussed ways to use our journals to track book sales and other activities related to our businesses. “I’d love to use a bullet journal, but I’m not an artist,” one author ...
Writing Tools: Use Your Spare Minutes To Write
Do you wish you had more time to do the things you’d like to do? In our writers’ group meeting, we discussed writing tools which can help us to save time and get more done. This inspired me because in 2019, writing has dropped off my radar. I don’t have hours to write. Although I’ve had spare ...
Productivity: Try This Weird Trick If You’re Unmotivated
Do you wish you could increase your productivity? Perhaps you’ve found as I have, that you’re very productive in one area of your life, but not in another. A friend who owns a hairdressing salon is very productive at work. Most days she works until seven in the evening, and the salon’s open ...
Procrastination: 3 Tips To Avoid Its Dangers
Procrastination is sneaky. By combining the use of a bullet journal with healthy habits, I thought I’d conquered that particular lifelong bad habit. Not so. For the past few weeks I’ve dithered on several projects. Why? Finally it occurred to me that I’d dropped a good habit, because I forgot to ...
Creativity: 4 Habits To Build Your Creative Inspiration
In our February writer’s group meeting we discussed creativity. Three writers in the group were blocked, and several others struggled to get back to regular writing after Christmas and New Year. I’ve found this too. If I take more than a week off from writing, it seems as if I’ve got out of the ...
