Random musings, book recommendations and reviews, advice for fellow indie authors, and more! Anything that doesn't fit neatly elsewhere.
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NOTE: I am preserving this blog post as I move my blog from WriteAs to Ghost in May 2026, however, I am no longer active on Ream. For a whole lot of reasons, GenAI being a significant part of that, I moved from Ream to here (ghost cms on my
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Exciting news! Several of my books have been nominated for the Indie Ink Awards! Voting opened yesterday and runs until December 31st! In celebration of this, you can purchase A LAKE OF FEATHERS AND MOONBEAMS directly on my webpage and using the discount code INKAWARDS when you hit the "
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I've found a cool way to set up direct sales on your own website with minimal effort and basically no coding. But my personal website is all hand-coded by me, and so I decided to take it one step further and integrate it with Middleman and how I
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Now that NaNoWriMo is behind us, and I'm in the home stretch of finishing SMOKE AND STEEL (just completed chapter 23 out of 25!), I've found the time to work more on the Campfire project of STARS AND SOIL, as I mentioned in my last update.
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NaNoWriMo is over! How did I do? I would say I did "alright." Did I hit 50k? Yes. Did I hit my goal? Not so much. But I am trying to have compassion and kindness for myself. [note: the last section of this post deals with triggering topics,
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I enjoy making tools for other people who like to organize and keep track of their progress on projects. I previously shared my spreadsheet progress tracker for revisions. Now I have a pdf file full of planner templates that you can use to track the finer details of novel revision.
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Recently, I was selected as one of the first authors monetized on Campfire Explore! And as of today, you can now read STARS AND SOIL exclusively on Campfire!! If you do not know about Campfire, it is the writing and world-building software that I have primarily used for several years
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Today, I officially published STARS AND SOIL on Campfire and plan to release the rest of the SCIONS AND SHADOWS books on Campfire. Right now, STARS AND SOIL is exclusive to Campfire. You might be asking, "Why? Why isn't it available on Amazon or elsewhere?" Well,
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I have spent several months trying to find the perfect method of keeping track of where I am in editing my novel. I mostly now use TickTick's Kanban feature to move stuff back and forth in the swim lanes, and TickTick's Gannt timeline to plan what
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I have difficulty with focus, concentration, staying on task, and both long- and short-term memory. I have no idea, honestly, how I get anything done. But the last few days, I have been using "WorkingHours" time tracking app to give me some sort of insight into what I
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Revisions are probably the hardest part of this whole process for me, and even more so as I changed up my workflow last year. I used to write very "clean" first drafts; I would take three hours to write 250 words because I kept writing those words over