Category Archives: Time Management
How to Banish Interruptions from Your Writing Time
Happy to welcome Colleen Story back to WHW. She’s got some great advice on how to protect our time from interruptions so they don’t derail our writing sessions. Read on! Some writers have complained to me recently: “I want to … Continue reading
Owning Your Writing Career in 2018
For writers with a desire to draft, edit, or complete a book, the New Year is a shining beacon of hope and productivity. For 90% of the writing population, the first couple of weeks of January are a feverish haze … Continue reading
Got 15 Minutes? How to Write 500+ Words
Life is busy, and for many of us, writing happens in smaller blocks of time rather than in big chunks. If we fall prey to one of the many distractions that are competing for our attention, then BAM, that writing … Continue reading
Six Smart Ways Indie Authors Can Collaborate When Marketing
The control and freedom indie authors have can be a big asset when it comes to marketing. The problem is time. Shouldering the weight of writing, editing, researching, publishing, marketing, and promoting alone can be exhausting, especially knowing our industry … Continue reading
The Write Life: How To Enjoy Summer and Still Be Productive
When you live in a place like Canada where summer can be, er, fleeting, you feel enormous pressure to get outside and DO STUFF. And heck, no matter where you live, summer is a time to be with family, enjoy … Continue reading
Distracted Writing: Is It Sabotaging Your Career?
We’re pleased to welcome Alex from Astrohaus, the makers of the Freewrite Typewriter, which is one of the coolest devices for writers I’ve seen. In fact, it’s so helpful we’re giving one away, so stick around for more on that. … Continue reading
Is a Writers’ Association Right For You?
I’m happy to welcome writer S.E. White to the blog today, who is taking a look at the value of writing associations. One of the best things about my job as a presenter is getting to work with the amazing … Continue reading
The Efficient Writer: Using Timelines to Organize Story Details
FACT: when we sit down to write a novel, most of us already have almost a book’s worth of notes tucked away in computer files, stored in writing apps, scribbled on notepads, or stuffed into the coffee-glazed ridges of our … Continue reading
Dan Blank: The Daily Practice of Growing Your Audience
Finding your book’s ideal audience and the people who are influential with that group is a core piece of marketing, but many authors struggle with where to even begin. Dan Blank of WeGrowMedia is here with practical, actionable steps to … Continue reading
As A Writer in Today’s World, What Do You Need?
I was tooling through some of our older posts here at Writers Helping Writers, and I found a “how are we doing?” one from The Bookshelf Muse era. This is where we would do a check in with you guys … Continue reading