THE PRODUCTIVE INDIE FICTION WRITER WORKBOOK
by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Boost Your Wordcount and Get Control of Your Indie Career
Non-Fiction for Writers
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The companion workbook to the massive The Productive Indie Fiction Writer!
Once you have completed the projects in this workbook, you will have a set of tools that can form the core of your indie business, including a word count log, a writing schedule, a production schedule and sales sheets to record the fruits of your labours; book sales.
There is also a quiz to help you figure out if you need to use a pen name…or not.
You can complete these projects even if you’ve never opened a spreadsheet before. Tracy will walk you through the basics, so that you can design the tools to work for you.
Gain fifteen years of Tracy’s experimenting and learning as an indie author, compacted down to these essential indie projects. Develop tools you can use to drive your indie fiction writing business.
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Reader praise for The Productive Indie Fiction Writer:
For writers who are newer in their careers this is a great way to build in good habits from the start. For those further along the path, I have no doubt there’s something within the pages that will strike a cord that can improve productivity.
It stands as a comprehensive compendium of knowledge, presented with remarkable accessibility by an author genuinely committed to sharing her experiences. The ultimate goal? To empower writers to achieve financial independence through their novels while leading their best lives. It comes with my highest recommendation!
…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.”
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Having read the original Productive Indie Fiction Writer book (and loved it!), I was pleased to see this companion workbook which is practical, applicable, and accessible even to a spreadsheet newbie like me. I love the word count tracker spreadsheet concept and I plan on implementing the advice in this workbook to help me track my productivity over the next few months.
In The Productive Indie Fiction Writer, one is quickly convinced of the need to structure the different aspects of one's author activity. But there you go, not only are you not quite sure how to go about it, but the task can also be daunting.
This is where the Indie Fiction Writer Companion Workbook comes in!
In this book, Tracy explains step by step how to deal with the intimidating Microsoft Excel (which used to give me hives) and set up a spreadsheet according to our needs.
This saves us a lot of headaches when it comes to building:
1. Your writing schedule (much less rigid than the name suggests, as it can be modulated to fit the chaos of everyday life) in order to give yourself a solid structure.
2. Your word count journal, essential to know if you are on schedule and adjust if necessary.
3. Your production schedule to have a realistic overview of what you can actually accomplish over a given period of time.
4. Your sales tracking, useful to know at a glance which book to promote, which promotion is working or not working...
All this is accompanied by numerous screenshots on which we rely with gratitude!
As a bonus, the Workbook also contains a quiz that simply helps to answer the big question of whether or not to take a pen name if you write in more than one genre.
So this book, far from being an accessory, will save you a lot of time, the only resource that an independent author always lacks!
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From the Introduction:
This is a companion workbook to the massive The Productive Indie Fiction Writer book.
Once you have completed the projects in this workbook, you will have a set of tools that can form the core of your indie business, including a word count log, a writing schedule, a production schedule and sales sheets to record the fruits of your labours; book sales.
There is also a quiz to help you figure out if you need to use a pen name…or not.
There are spreadsheets to record writing sprints, and a checklist to keep your backlist up to date, fresh and of interest to readers who discover you.
I don’t spend a lot of time explaining how to apply these tools, or why you should, because all that information is in The Productive Indie Fiction Writer. While that book provides the theory, this book provides the practical.
I tried very hard in The Productive Indie Fiction Writer to not geek out too much and overwhelm authors who quail at the idea of math, and for whom opening a spreadsheet is a challenge.
I can’t avoid that in this workbook, so one of the first things you’ll come across is a Spreadsheet 101 series of exercises designed to walk you through some of the basics of using spreadsheets, along with a helpful mindset for dealing with them.
Can you build these tools and do the work without spreadsheets? Yes! Absolutely. You can use pencil and paper, ruler and calculator, and manage your writing career that way. I’ve provided pages of blank tables that can be copied and used in just this way.
I would suggest you use a pencil for these projects, so that you can erase and rework the calculations, quizzes, etc., in the future—this will give you a sense of progress and improvement.
Or you can copy the sheets and write only on the copies. This will let you keep historical records of how your business and your mindset has changed over time.
Above all, don’t be intimidated by any of this.
I was not a STEM student. I got my highest grade for English, and I don’t have a degree. I taught myself step by painful step what I’m about to walk you through now. You will get twenty years of my experimenting and learning compacted down to whatever time it takes you to get through the projects–without all the failed experiments and dead ends, scrapped “great ideas” and other timewasters I’ve experienced.
And you’ll end up with tools that you can use exactly as is or adapt to suit your indie fiction writing business.
So let’s get on with it.
