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How To Write Every Day
It’s not as hard as you think.
Successful writers tell us to “write every day.” Study great authors and you find they write every day. They write when they don’t feel like it.
The 30-Day Writing Challenge
When I first started in a writing platform, my mentors suggested a write-everyday-for-30- days challenge.
I re-posted a bunch of old blog posts. I posted some already written chapters from a book in progress about my birth-father who was killed on D-Day after parachuting into Normandy. I re-posted some old stuff from EZine Articles. Only half or less of what I posted was new. I met the challenge.
It got harder when I ran out of content to re-post.
Why I Don’t Always Meet My Every Day Goal
All too often, I make writing every day too hard. I get a brain storm for a story. It’s complicated, lots of moving pieces, a long outline. Probably requires some research. I don’t think about how I might divide it into 2–3 stories.
The result is a story that eats up a day. I’ve gotten nothing else done. The next day I can’t write a story because I…
