Dictation – The Productive Author

The Productive Author’s Guide to Dictation

I will soon be releasing an update to a book I published at the end of 2014: The Productive Author’s Guide to Dictation, which is an introduction to how dictation can supercharge your fiction and non-fiction writing and blogging. Here’s the cover! Because writing productivity skills like dictation may make you feel like you have a few […]

by Cindy Grigg

Dictation: The Best Trick I Have Found for Writing Faster or Under Deadline

Use your voice to reach those deadlines or NaNoWriMo goals. Here’s how to write faster when you need to.

by Cindy Grigg

Adventures in Extreme Novel Outlining

I began writing fiction as an interior decorator of rooms that were ill-designed. “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.” – Ernest Hemingway Specifically, my early stories feature quirks and atmosphere but lack something in orchestration and plot. In other words, I began this adventure as a die-hard pantser who resisted outlining and structuring. Over the past […]

by Cindy Grigg

Writing and Your Health

This year’s Comic Con FanX was of course fabulous so I wanted to give a quick recap of my panels, which included a Writing and Your Health panel, followed by a dozen of my favorite costume pics. I love panels as an opportunity to talk about my fiction and non-fiction work, and a way to meet […]

by Cindy Grigg

NaNoWriMo Dropout? 5 Ways to Succeed This Year

NaNoWriMo has come and gone, leaving victors and casualties in its wake. Even though I finished my NaNoWriMo this year and in fact produce enough fiction word count to call every month a WriMo, I identify more with the dropouts because I tried to do National Novel Writing Month several times before this year–all ‘fails’! […]

by Cindy Grigg

The Productive Author App of the Week: Ulysses for Mac

The Ulysses App for Mac desktop is a text editor and writing tool for many kinds of writers, from students to fiction authors. Created by a group called The Soulmen GbR, this app is currently listed as the Ulysses III…and it is cool! To create with this tool, a writer simply types content in the editor […]

by Cindy Grigg

Dictation: How I Wrote 6000 Words in 6 Miles By Going on a Writing Walkabout

You do not have to sit butt-in -chair to be productive! Learn how to write your book using dictation on a walk.

by Cindy Grigg

5 Words I Made Up to Describe NaNoWriMo

The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge is a many-faceted thing. To describe the experience, I found myself needing to mash up some fresh word concotions. Technically every month is NaNoWriMo for me. I do between 15,000 and 20,000 words per week of fiction writing. Sure, that’s all pure, gunky draft but it’s out there! […]

by Cindy Grigg

13 Advantages to Dictating Your Writing

I began looking into dictation for several reasons. Like many people, I have experienced back problems which make it hard to sit at a computer and write all day. I’ve also had trouble keeping weight off since becoming a full-time writer. There, said it! You might relate to these reasons or have some of your […]