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Crafting Goals and Business Plans for Novel Writers: Innovative Approaches and Best Practices
By Lisa Kober Posted 12/16/2024
The journey of a romance novelist is a blend of creativity, passion, and determination. Like any artistic endeavor, it requires thoughtful goal-setting and structured business planning to thrive in the competitive publishing landscape. By taking a strategic approach to their career, romance writers can nurture their creative ambitions while ensuring sustainable business growth. Below are innovative and best practice strategies for creating successful goals and business plans, ensuring artistic fulfillment and financial success.
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Five Tips for Turning Your Writing Goals Inside Out and Upside Down When You Feel Stuck
By Ann Kellett Posted 12/16/2024
There’s a lot of great advice for the writing life: write every day, track your progress, write first and edit later, and so on.
But too often, the writing goals that served us well early on suddenly lose their magic. We find ourselves in a creative rut and even the best advice cannot seem to help us make the words flow.
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Chart Your Course: Find Direction and Purpose with Goals
By Kristina Knight Posted 12/16/2024
Looking Back to Move Forward
For years, I viewed writing as a relentless pursuit of publication, a destination to be reached at all costs. A destination that would have finality. This mindset, while well-intentioned, often left me feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and ultimately unfulfilled. It was as if I was constantly chasing a carrot dangling just out of reach.
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Message from the President - November 2024 RWR
As the calendar year winds down, many of us will find these last months busy both personally and professionally. I’m setting small, attainable goals to help me maintain forward momentum in my writing and personal journeys. Balancing time management with self-care is challenging, but it’s a skill I know I can master to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Whether you’re participating in a writing challenge or pushing forward with your latest manuscript, I encourage you to be creative with your time and your self-care.
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A Writer’s Voice, part 2—Or, One Path to Finding Yours!
By Janet W. Butler Posted 11/26/2024
In part 1, we talked about the unique writer’s voice—and that, sometimes, it’s hard to define or pinpoint.
How do you know what your particular “voice” is?
How do you identify it?
How do you know it when you hear it?
And can it change?
Last question first, because this particular question seems to be a biggie.
Short answer? Yes…to a point.
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Time is Money: How Financial Management Tools Can Help You Manage Your Time
By Diane Kelly, CPA Posted 11/26/2024
As a former accountant, I am familiar with financial management techniques. However, it wasn’t until years into my writing career that I had an epiphany - money management and time management have a lot in common, and the same principles apply to both.
How did this epiphany come about? I used to knock out other items on my to-do list each day before beginning work on my novel-in-progress. My philosophy was that getting these pending items out of the way would allow me to relax and focus better on my work without having tasks hanging over me or worrying what urgent matters might be waiting in my in-box.
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Writing In No Time
By Kris Bock Posted 11/26/2024
So many things demand our time—job, spouse, children, volunteer work, housework. It’s tempting to say, I’ll write during vacation, or when the kids are back in school, or when the kids leave home, or when I retire ….
Yet if you want to be a writer, you must find time to write.
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Struggle with Time Management? Here’s What the Experts Say—With Tips We Can Use Right Now
By Ann Kellett Posted 11/26/2024
One of the great things about our craft is that all we have to do to call ourselves writers, is to write! As Nora Roberts once told the New York Times, she doesn’t wait for the creative muse; “I just sit down and put my fingers on the keyboard and my butt in the chair.”
For most of us, it’s not that simple, of course. Sometimes our fingers freeze and our butts grow weary. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Time Management For Writers
By Lynn Gale Posted 11/26/2024
In my old life as a payroll supervisor, time management was not only integral but essential to our team’s success. Deadlines were frequent and non-negotiable and bound by legislation provincially, federally, and in some cases internationally. I managed to eke out the odd poem or story in my free time, but writing was an extra.
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Message from the President - October 2024 RWR
I truly enjoyed meeting new people and reconnecting with writer friends at the 2024 Annual Conference in Austin, TX. Introducing Brenda Jackson—a trailblazer and an inspiration to countless writers—at the Welcome Reception was one of my personal conference highlights. Another standout moment was celebrating our first recipients of the Volunteer Service Award and honoring two RWA presidents, who have dedicated so much of their time, energy, and expertise to our organization, with lifetime memberships.
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WHY PLOTTING IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS
By Diana Georgelos Posted 10/30/2024
When companies launch new products, they spend a considerable amount of time on research and development. I would know. I’ve spent a significant part of my career working to create consumer packaged goods products, otherwise known as the products you find lining the shelves of grocery stores and pharmacies. The first step in any new product development process is to conduct a brainstorming meeting to generate innovative ideas. Then the team assesses the desirability and viability of the options and picks the best idea to develop. As part of the process, the team develops early-stage prototypes which they test and improve before launching the final version of the product into the marketplace.
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