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Mastering Your To-Do List (Or: Why Half-Assing It Will Sink Your Writing Career)

9 August 2025 / Tracy Cooper-Posey

A half-used task manager is worse than none at all. It lulls you into thinking you’re organized while your real workload smolders quietly in the background. As indie authors, we can’t afford that. There are just too many moving parts. The right system—used properly—turns chaos into calm, lets you stop reacting to fires, and helps you finally make space for the deep, strategic work that actually grows your career. Like, you know…writing.

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If Your To-Do List Stresses You Out, You’re Doing It Wrong

28 June 2025 / Tracy Cooper-Posey, Uncategorized

Most writers think they’re breaking down their tasks—but if you’re still staring at “Revise novel” on your to-do list and feeling stuck, you’ve got a project, not a task. Here’s how to break your work down into do-able chunks that actually get done.

Inbox Reboot – Part 7: Taming the Monster Inbox

22 June 2025 / Taylen Carver

You know the feeling: you open your email and the unread counter just says “999+” because the program can’t count any higher. You scroll—and scroll—and scroll—only to see repeat subject lines from people who’ve pinged you three times because you never answered the first one. Maybe you’ve just come back from holiday, maybe a life-event set the world texting and emailing you, or maybe you simply haven’t wrangled your inbox in a while. Whatever the cause, you’ve got a big, sick-making inbox on your hands.