FOUR “NEW WRITER MISTAKES” That Kept Me From Making Money, When I First Started Writing.
And how I fixed them.
Originally published at https://medium.com on February 11, 2022, revised July 19, 2024.
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I truly wanted to be a writer when I discovered this publication, but I found I had more bad habits to overcome than stories to tell. I whittled the number down to four and found answers to each one.
Mistake One— no particular time to write.
When I wanted to write, I would do just that. Wanted to write. I would think about it and imagine being a writer. But, there was schoolwork, and then there was actual work.
When I got married, my wife and I began a family. The saying is “letting the urgent displace the important.” And there was generally something urgent going on.
My desire to write was not even on the important scale, much less the urgent one.
What I finally did. I set an appointment with myself for the same time and place every day. It did take a few weeks of tweaking and adjusting, until I found the best time that worked for all seven days of each week. That finally removed one agonizing (for me) pre-writing decision from my plate every day.