Writing Tips: Consistency is the Key to Success
Have you ever started a project and went all out on it for the first week… maybe even two weeks. Then you lost steam and the interest in the project waned. Somehow you dropped the project. You stopped working on it all together. Every now and then you think about it and think to yourself, ”Self? I really need to go back and finish that story.” If you are like me, you say it, but you never touch it again.
This is the dreadful reaction to inconsistency. You can go and dive head first into a story with all intentions of finishing it, but if you don’t have a habit of writing everyday at a certain time, you will most likely fail in finishing the work. This is not the case for everyone, but I think it is the case for 98% of us.
The only real way to avoid this collapse in story telling is to have a specific time everyday to sit down in front of a computer and write. It can be 20 minutes. If you write for 20 minutes you could write an average of 400 words per day. In three months you will have just under 40,000 words written, more if you get carried away some days.
If you can find this 20 minutes to write, preferably the same time everyday, you will be able to write a novel within 6 months. You could half that time if you wrote 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night. Try it for two weeks. Make it a habit and watch your numbers grow. It will feel good when you consistently print page after page of content.
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