How to Cook up a Bulletproof Writing Habit and Stick To It

The 5-step process that will set you free

This man is over the moon because he did some writing/cooking for several days. Thank you, Natalianovikova

If there’s a skill everybody improved like crazy thanks to the Internet, it’s cooking.

Whereas before we had some friends who never invited us over because their cooking skills were embarrassing, or college students spent years eating sausages and spaghetti with cheap tomato sauce, we now have youngsters experimenting with nouveau cuisine, and adding chia seeds to their morning green smoothies.

I see many similarities between writing and cooking. Cooking requires good doses of skills, patience, learning, and creativity. Just as writing does.

Plus, all chefs are a bit eccentric or, let’s be honest, nutters.

Just like writers.

As a former restaurant owner, I think I can bring some tips easily applied to your writing routine.

#1 Plan your meals (articles)

Imagine you had to go every day to the supermarket to get your ingredients and decide what you’re going to cook.

I’ve been there, especially on holidays, so I can’t tell you enough what a waste of time that is. Also, it usually doesn’t bring your best abilities to the cooking process because you wasted part…