Blog – Page 29

08/08/17

DRIVE and Indie Publishing, Part 3 – 10% Time

The idea of 10% time is letting your employees spend 10% of their hours (or one day a quarter – whatever) working on any project they want. The idea is to spur innovation. Now, this doesn’t naturally appear to apply to writers. I mean, we’re on 10% Time ALL THE TIME, right? Well… not really. In a global sense, yes…. Read More

08/08/17

DRIVE and Indie Publishing, Part 2 – Turning Work into Play and Play into Work

“Once we realize that the boundaries between work and play are artificial, we can take matters in hand and begin the difficult task of making life more livable.” – DRIVE by Daniel Pink I write full-time, which I often call “playing full-time” but in reality, I have three teen boys and a husband and home and a life, and it’s… Read More

08/08/17

BE YOUR OWN ACQUISITIONS EDITOR

With 30+ titles under Penname and SKQ, I’ve got more IP than some small presses. As such, I begin to appreciate the problems they have with properly marketing all of their catalog, but more importantly, I’ve become my own Acquisitions Editor. WRITE AND RELEASE There’s this idea in Indie Land that you have to write, release, write, release. Write.Publish.Repeat (a… Read More

08/08/17

DRIVE and Indie Publishing – Part 1 – Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose

I have many thoughts about Daniel Pink’s book DRIVE and how its theories of motivation intersect with indie publishing. MANY THOUGHTS. So many I have to break this into parts. A PRIMER DRIVE is about Motivation 3.0 – the autonomy, mastery, and purpose that drives our intrinsic motivation to work, play, live, and create. Motivation 2.0 is your typical carrots-and-sticks… Read More

08/08/17

On Remembering Not to Panic

Your loving reminder not to panic, not matter what you see in the headlines. Seriously, folks, I’ve been in this business for almost 6 years. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen something happen and get passed around as the End of Times. And a BUNCH of people make decisions based on it. There’s a difference between being… Read More

08/08/17

Start Before You’re Ready

Start Before You’re Ready Don’t prepare. Begin. Remember our enemy is not lack of preparation… the enemy is Resistance. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications, and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do. Start before you’re… Read More