Your (and your editor’s) solution is one of the more creative approaches I’ve read. The fact that it let you get a jump on your marketing makes your approach all that more special. I usually tell my writing students and clients to start their blog the day they start their book because it takes that long to build a strong following through social networking and blogging. You’ve added a brilliant twist to the process that–I hope–you’ll let me “steal.”

I think using your exercises, musings etc. to get a jump on contests and anthology publications is just marvelous. And I agree with the agent who suggested you post the unpublished stories on your blog. It does, indeed, give proof of a readership.

Again, thanks for sharing your technique.

He had three of them in his writing room, each sitting on top of a tall dresser. Each one was used for a different novel in progress.

Whenever Louis became bogged down with one story, he would break the writer’s block by stepping over to the next typewriter and work on that story for a while.

Taking his mind off of the story in trouble let his unconscious work in the background. Yet, he still made progress on the other novel in the meantime.

Like all creative processes, writing also benefits from taking a different perspective. Ginger has given us a terrific prescription for not only boosting our output but adding to our platform as credible writers worthy of publication. Brava!