Write Every Day!

Disclaimer first—I do not consider myself a professional anything, so my suggestions and tips should be taken as just one more person on the internet sharing his personal opinion based on his own experiences.  These tips and ideas may work for you too, but they may not.  Just saying.   

Writing Tip #003

Write something every day!  I know this is a tip that a ton of writers throw around as the go-to-advice for being a writer, but there is so much truth to this exercise.  Seriously, if you actually sit down (or stand if you write standing up) commit yourself to write just one thing every day, it will keep your fire lit.  Write one chapter.  Write one page.  Write one paragraph.  Hey, just write one sentence—something that develops your story a little further than it was.  Set that small goal before you sit down to write, and just make that little goal happen.  Yeah, maybe you will delete that sentence, or paragraph, or page tomorrow, but you wrote something today.  You set a goal, and you achieved it.  Chances are, you will appreciate what you’ve written and will have a difficult time calling it quits for the day.  Or maybe you will only complete that small goal and come back to it the next day hating everything about what you had written—now you’ve learned something about your story—you know what doesn’t work.  Try again, and set a new goal for the next day.  Write Every Day!