by Zoe M. McCarthy | Feb 21, 2019 | Writing
image by rawpixel Tailor Your Fiction Manuscript in 30 Days now available. See details below. I’ll share what I do to keep the writing, marketing, financial, pay-it-forward, and event tasks straight. I hope other authors will share what they do. Now that I have eight...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Mar 15, 2018 | Writing
When I started writing, I couldn’t have imagined what my weeks would look like after my books published. For the last seven years, I’ve been a full-time writer. Let me rephrase that, a full-time author. I’ve learned there’s a difference, as I’ll show. Background I...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Sep 28, 2017 | Writing
Have you ever felt so frazzled, you couldn’t find the panic button? You may even ask, “How could this happen? I’m an organized person.” Last week as I shuffled through my Writer’s Digest magazines, I spotted the February 2017 issue’s article, “Map Your Writing Time”...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Mar 12, 2015 | Writing
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn To save days marketing Book 2, you need to become a super-crazed, organized packrat for Book 1. If you failed to do these steps on Book 1, do them during Book 2. Step 1 – Save During the writing and...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Apr 11, 2013 | Writing
“Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.” –Victor Kiam We don’t plan to procrastinate. We want to fulfill our obligations and move forward. But too often we don’t.Let’s face it. Procrastination is a weird kind of selfishness, because it robs others...
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