New Writers, Do One of These For Yourself
Every day.
Every day.
You want to be a writer.
Or you're pretty sure you are a writer.
You have three choices today and every day regarding your belief.
You are fooling yourself.
You are treating yourself badly by lying or deceiving yourself.
You are actually doing something you need to do as, or to become the writer you wish to be.
What are we going to do for ourselves today?
Do we have at least one power book? It may hold our to-do list each day, our idea list, our goals, or possibly our prayer list. It’s a record of where we are going and where we are. However small, it shows what steps we have taken that day.
If you are not doing that yet, that may be one good thing to do today.
How about a calendar? Do we even know what day it is, or what we need to have done by next week? That might be one good thing we can do for ourselves today.
How about a blog? Do you have one? Does it look good? Are you proud of it? Do you write entries regularly? Any part of this would be one good thing you should do.
What about other publishing? Are you into Medium yet? Again, lots of good things need to be done.
Once you write something, how do you spread the word about it? Are you into Twitter or Facebook? Are you happy with the way they look? A word of caution, they can swallow your time like quicksand if they become a hobby for you instead of a tool for your writing.
Start small and start immediately.
Doing any pieces or parts of these things will be doing something good for yourself and your writing today. Start small and start immediately.
Put them in your power book. Don’t overwhelm yourself with the entire job. Check off one or two every day. After a month you will be amazed at how far you've gotten.
You can always spend your time reading wonderful stories about how someone makes $5000 a month, but these may also become counterproductive to you if taken as more than inspiration. Build your foundation first.
Pour the concrete. Lay the blocks. Don’t start on the roof first
Finally get to the point as soon as possible, where you can write every day. First 100 words, then 200, then 300. Here again, after a week or a month, you will be amazed at what you have accomplished.
There is no great glory in the grunt work, but it must be done. By doing a little every day, you are doing something great for yourself constantly.
Incidentally, if you’re smart, you will let me warn you every time I publish a story, by getting on THIS LIST. If you want to read even more stories, and support the movement, be sure to join on HERE. Get a FREE chaotic sample of me writing about me writing in PDF form by CLICKING HERE. Anyone sick of clicking, CLICK HERE.
Join Medium with my referral link - Don Martin
As a Medium member, a portion of your membership fee goes to writers you read, and you get full access to every story…medium.com
FREE! Now available! MARTIN WRITING on MARTIN WRITING — Small volume of a handful of stories on Deep Thought, Humor, Profundity, Essays, and Journalistic Instruction in read-anywhere PDF format! CLICK HERE!