Over the next week, I will delve into five common writing poisons. These poisons will ruin your ability and motivation to write and can rob you of many manuscripts. It is essential that you avoid these common pitfalls if you want to write consistently and without interruption. Today I will focus on the need for…
Writers find that after their initial burst of raw writing, much of the final product is the result of revision. Most writers spend as much time revising as they do writing. This goes for writers who write books and articles and novels. However, having said that, most writers spend some time at least in the…
One of the most difficult things for beginning writers to do is to develop their own style. This takes a long time and a lot of self-confidence. The important thing to remember when you are creating your style is that it is important for you not to follow anyone else’s rules and what works for…
One of the ways that writers can do one thing different for themselves is to create writing rituals until they become habits that support your writing automatically. Writing rituals are a type of positive addictions. They can help us keep writing or to get writing. Rituals can be defined as regular habits of patterns that…
The most common strategy to get yourself to write when you are not writing is to commit to small amounts of time. Five or fifteen minutes seem to be favorites for many writers. This does not mean that you will only write for five or fifteen minutes. It means that you promise to write for…
Some writers use promises to themselves to help them get their writing done. A promise is very specific. There are two things that writers should be specific about: they should be specific about their actions or their results. A specific action promise might be: “I commit to writing at least fifteen minutes a day, six…