The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well

Name: The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9781998184194

By Tracy Cooper-Posey

Publisher Description

Proven tactics from an author of 200+ fiction titles.

Is your indie writing business overwhelming you? Are you flailing, looking for the way to increase your revenue?

Are you constantly buying courses, watching webinars and wondering how to get ahead?

There is so much information available for indies that, often, we don't know where to start or who to trust.

Dip into The Productive Indie Fiction Writer and learn how to deal with everything that comes at you on a daily basis. Get back control of your writing career not by adopting yet another system, or buying yet another expensive technological solution, but by going back to basics.

Get organized. Get a handle on your writing business…and your life.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides | Publishing & Books | Authorship
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Praise for Tracy's The Productive Indie Fiction Writer blog:

Great blog, Tracy! And, yup, I'm more prolific now than ever before.

I really appreciate you taking the time to write this post up even while you're going through all of that! it was exactly what I needed to read right now.

…thank you for this post and for all the other posts that I've read on here! it helps me finish off this year knowing that I'm not alone in struggling with creative output under pressure,

This is great stuff. Thanks for sharing your tips.

You're an inspiration, so keep doing what you're doing!

WOW, even in this stressful time you're still on top of it.

Man you are so full of all kinds of information. As always, I found this very interesting and enlightening.
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Tracy Cooper-Posey is a prolific indie fiction writer with over 200 titles published. Her books have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, and a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for "Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding." She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.

She is the owner and sole content writer of The Productive Indie Fiction Writer blog, the publisher at Stories Rule Press, and manages the content for four author sites.

The Productive Indie Fiction Writer book is her first non-fiction book for writers.

She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.

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The Productive Indie Fiction Writer: Strategies for Writing More, Earning More, and Living Well Reviews

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MegNapier

Created over 2 years ago

“While writing is a solitary pursuit, there are countless writing communities, coaches, and support groups as well as innumerable craft books and how-to courses. Many of them advocate patience and not asking too much of yourself, along with awareness of and attention to your individual strengths and weaknesses. Tracy Cooper-Posey doesn’t belittle these concepts, but she cuts to the chase: success requires time—whatever you, uniquely, can allot, as well as attention, commitment, and consistency, which she calls the superpower of the productive indie writer. Becoming prolific “is a daily habit, a philosophy, and a business strategy.” Should a writer spend time practicing with prompts, etc.? No! Set goals for every book, such as “This book, I will tighten up my dialogue tags.” By doing so: “The more books you write, the more practice you incorporate, and the more you improve.” And for those who fear writing quickly will diminish the quality of their prose, she insists that the “fast equals crap” myth is just that: a myth. “Story is all that counts . . . How fast the words are written have zero relationship to the story that is told with those words.” The necessary elements for success: writing and production scheduling. Ms. Cooper-Posey advocates keeping word count logs, producing an annual production schedule, and harnessing the power of consistency. To that end she includes step-by-step instructions for creating spread sheets to keep track of word counts, time, money . . . everything. Can life get in the way of productivity? Most certainly, and the author provides clear and breath-takingly harsh evidence from her own life. She has spent the last few years in chronic pain from spinal and neck injuries as well as treatments for a life-threatening cancer. Her response: take it day-by-day and step by painful step, and she offers this pithy advice: “If [stuff] is always going to happen, why give up because [stuff] happened . . . If you don’t let the [stuff] defeat you, you get what you want.” How else to counter overload or burnout? Ms. Cooper-Posey give suggestions for turning the “I have to write” dread writers sometimes feel into “I GET to write” anticipation and quotes the great Terry Pratchett: “Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.” Her book does a great job of explaining the key advantages of self-publishing, namely: control over your current book’s publication, and more importantly, your backlist, ultimately resulting in far greater and consistent financial reward. THE PRODUCTIVE INDIE FICTION WRITER includes advice from a plethora of experts along with a superb bibliography and list of recommended resources. Tracy Cooper-Posey’s writing style is clear, her suggestions specific and easy to understand, and her generous desire to share her hard-won experience resonates in every chapter. She wants ever writer to succeed and sums up her philosophy with this succinct encouragement: “You haven’t failed until you quit.” I am grateful to the publisher for providing me an early copy of this book.”

About Tracy Cooper-Posey

Tracy Cooper-Posey is a #1 Best Selling Author. She writes romantic suspense, historical, paranormal and science fiction romance. She has published over 120 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.

She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, and a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.

She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.

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