How to Side Hustle Your Writing Career — #3: Structure & Goal Setting

Part 3: Easy Steps to Structure Your Writing and Develop Clear Goals

N.A. Turner
Publishous
Published in
6 min readSep 5, 2018

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From Pxhere.com

“Prose is architecture. It’s not interior design.” — Ernest Hemingway

We are well on our way to become a writer on the side. We’ve covered making time to write next to your full-time job and how to define your audience.

No need to ditch your job. No need to take needless risks. Test the water first. See what you’re capable of. See if it could work.

To give you an idea of what I’m planning to share in these series, I’ll share more tips about developing a writing routine, honing your craft, editing and publishing, marketing, monetization, publishing eBooks and much more.

For now, let’s focus on step 3: how to structure your writing and set goals for yourself.

Structuring Your Writing Ideas

#1: Make lists

As most of you know, I write short stories, blog posts and I’m working on a novel. All types of writing require a different approach, however how I structure all those types of writing is usually the same.

Everything starts with a list.

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N.A. Turner
Publishous

I write about writing & creativity. Short story writer and novelist. Amazon best-selling author. Free eBook with writing tips: bit.ly/TurnerMail