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| 3 Clever Ways to Help You Write Daily |
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| By Matthew Hart |
Keeping to a daily writing routine will create the greatest impact on your writing skills and productivity throughout your writing career.
Here are 3 Clever Ways to Help You Write Daily
1. Keep a Daily Journal or Diary
By keeping a daily journal or diary entry, you will gain two important benefits:
First, you will be showing up at the page to write every day which will develop the groundwork for your daily writing habit.
Second, you will be capturing your real to life events and your emotional responses towards those events and the people involved with them.
As your writing skills get better, your personal, daily, journal entries will become an invaluable resource for enhancing your writing.
Your daily journals will give you the foundation for your daily writing habit and will help you create fictional characters and worlds with three-dimensionality that will "ring true."
2. Start a Blog
You will gain two more benefits from starting your own blog:
First, by meeting a consistent publishing schedule you will be developing the self discipline required to write daily to meet your writing project deadlines.
Keep in mind, you are not required to publish daily. Once or twice a week is acceptable. Just keep to it.
Second, you will start to develop your writer's platform, as well as your fan base of excited readers who will want to get to know you better.
Your writer's platform allows you to engage with your readers.
Once you get to know who is reading your writing, you can begin to write with your readers in mind.
By engaging with your readers through your blog, you will build excitement around your next published work. You can also ask them for their opinions on story ideas and even recruit beta readers to give you notes.
Get involved. Get excited. These are your fans!
3. Write Short Stories
You will gain two great benefits from writing short stories.
First, you will gain more confidence as a writer as you begin meeting your production goals. By finishing one polished short story a week, you will find that it becomes easier to sit down and write every day because each day will represent a small step towards finishing a weekly goal.
Second, you'll be ready to publish your book of short stories as all those short stories have added up over time.
What started out as a simple daily writing practice has now become a viable commercial product!
Hopefully, you've been blogging about your writing experience and asking for your reader's opinions of your writing projects throughout the year because, guess what? You will now have an audience of readers waiting to buy your latest published book of short stories!
For example, here is my own book of short stories:
I hope you can start using these 3 clever ways to help you write daily.
What are your daily writing habits?
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