Indie publishing is for many businesses, not just writers! A yoga teacher earning $70 teaching a one-hour class who sells three students a $12 indie-published book, has boosted her profits more than 50%. And an independent software vendor who sells manuals for his system isn't just sweetening his bottom line ...

In my previous article I discussed why all businesses should indie publish—including non-writing businesses. Here are some guidelines for doing it right:   Clarify your goals If you want to indie publish for a hobby, or to create a memento for loved ones, then you can just cut loose and ...

Don't beat yourself up for procrastinating, and don't label yourself as "lazy". Read on to learn how to move beyond labels. Perfectionists, being drawn to reductiveness, dichotomization and rigidity, love labels. But the labels they use are almost always harmful in that they either denigrate the writer or increase the ...

This book picked me up and shook me. I started working on my novel again, stalled because I was thinking I hadn’t plotted it right (perfectionist anyone?) I also began to finish a quilt that has been languishing for 4 years because I was afraid to do it wrong (again? ...

Note: At the beginning of the year I report some of the previous year's most popular posts. My spring and summer have been somewhat tough. I mentioned my recent relationship breakup in another blog post. More recently, my cherished little dog, Orbit, has developed many health problems, and was recently ...

Robert Wright: "A thought experiment: Suppose you are a parent and you (a) watch someone else's toddler misbehave and then (b) watch your own toddler do the same. Your predicted reactions, respectively, are: (a) "What a brat!" and (b)"That's what happens when she skips her nap." "Now (b) is often ...

I cringe whenever I hear someone say writing is hard because it's not - at least, not after you've overcome your perfectionism. Once you do that, then writing becomes pretty much effortless, the way it was for many of us when we were young and it was a natural form ...

In a big rush this morning due to heavy teaching load, but had to post about this. Like most blogsters, I regularly check my stats to see how much traffic I have, where it's coming from, etc. Among other things, I see the search terms people use to wind up ...