Review: Tips on Cranking Out More Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
If you value becoming more successful at writing commercial fiction, you will undoubtedly find some helpful tips in this inexpensive book.  The author recommends asking yourself four questions:  What's holding me back?  How might those obstacles be dissolved?  What steps are necessary to dissolve them?  How might similar obstacles be prevented from forming?  Based mostly on her own personal experience and examination, she identifies 4 major obstacles:  time, energy, fear, and inadequate systems [processes, routines].  She provides tactics for dissolving each of the four.  For example, with respect to time, she recommends tracking it, making yourself accountable, setting SMART goals, focusing on progress rather than perfection, and setting priorities.  None of these are new ideas, but she relates them in a personal way designed to help make the reader's writing more productive.