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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Tracy is a prolific indie fiction writer with over 200 titles published, written under three pen names, and stretching across the popular fiction spectrum. 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. 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 was the first of her non-fiction books 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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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.
