Less Words, More Often (How to Stay Motivated to Write Every Day)

You can’t become a concert pianist practicing only once a week. Just like you can’t become a proficient writer writing only once a week.

Those of you who have taken my online Productivity Hacks course know that I’m a big fan of setting up a writing routine. If there’s one piece of writing advice that I can give you it’s this: WRITE EVERY DAY. (Or at the very least 5 days a week.) I don’t care if you only have 5 minutes between important meetings, sit down and get some words on the page. You may only get 10 words. You may get a 100. You may get a 1000. The number doesn’t matter. Checking the box that says “Wrote today” is what matters.

Getting into the habit of writing every day is, I believe, one of the most important steps to being a successful writer. Writing 100 words every day, in the long run, is more beneficial than writing 5,000 words once a week. Finishing a novel or project is as much about mindset as it is about actual words on a page. And getting into the “writing mindset” every time you sit down is easy if you sit down each and every day.

 

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