![]() So write down your writing goals, make a plan. It’s been shown that you’re 42% more likely to do something if you write it down. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.” - Herman Wouk “I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. ![]() That requires you to use real sensations and experiences, to truly taste life and describe that taste for your readers. It is the ability to make the reader feel like you’re inside their mind or writing only for them. The best writing isn’t the fanciest terminology or craziest concept, it is the ability to capture the mundane in a beautiful way. "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." - Anaïs Nin The day you write only for others is when you stop becoming a writer and become a typer. I think of topics that I wish there was a book about, and then I make it my goal to write that story. ![]() Stop writing what you think people want to read, firstly because you may be wrong and secondly because you won’t enjoy a minute of it. "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison May the odds be ever in your favour - bonus Hunger Games reference thrown in! 5. Even when you doubt yourself, even when you feel like it is pointless, just keep writing. Not only because you’ll improve each time but that you simply must hit gold with a story! Keep writing. It’s simple maths if you keep writing, eventually one will have to be good enough. "If you write one story, it may be bad if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor." - Edgar Rice Burroughs What scares you most? Now write about it. There is no room for doubt in writing, only pushing forward. She had the guts and imagination required to capture the hearts of thousands. But above everything, she was an incredible writer. Sylvia Plath had a difficult life, to the extent of having the Sylvia Plath Effect named after her, which focuses on the high rates of poets with depression. ![]() The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” - Sylvia Plath “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. There are ways to read more, and all of them will lead to you becoming a better writer. I truly believe that good writers read outside of their genre and read whatever they can get their hands on. And where do these words come from? Partially from reading other words. You write Medium articles, you write novels, you write ideas. You write on days you feel like it, you write on days that you don’t feel like it. You build your writing habit and you stick to it. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” - Stephen King If you want to be a writer, you have to write, so choose a time and stick to it. With walks or shower musings, with a steaming mug of coffee or a window view. Building a writing habit is building the ability to inspire yourself. But with that comes another misconception: that inspiration is out of our control. Being a writer is writing even when you don’t want to, that’s the only major difference. If you only write when inspired, you’ll write very little in your life. I think this is the biggest misconception about becoming and being a writer: that you write when you’re inspired. “I only write when I’m inspired, so I see to it that I’m inspired every morning at nine o’clock.” - Peter De Vries Ten quotes by writers about passion, inspiration, dedication and sex. So let’s direct you on the road to actually writing by checking out these ten quotes about writing to give you that necessary push in the right direction. We all need a bit of productive procrastination once in a while. You’re procrastinating from writing, and that’s okay.
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