WRITING | FLOW | CREATIVITY
A Simple 4-Step Flow Method to Help You Get in the Writing Zone
Separate out titling, outlining, flow-writing, and editing. Plus: a bonus tip.
When I sit down at the keyboard every day, I acknowledge one core fact of my reality: I don’t have a lot of time to get a blog post written.
I start writing in the morning after I’ve completed my workout routine for the day, but before I have to leave to start my Uber Eats shift, which will occupy my entire day, roughly from 12 pm-8 pm, 6 days a week.
Given this reality, I’ve had to think about a method that will help me get into a writing flow as soon as possible so I can waste less time thinking about what to write so that I can spend it actually writing.
Now, there’s another fact of reality I grapple with each day: online blogging is a bit like playing slots at the casino.
Every blog post we publish is like pulling down on the slot machine lever. We don’t know if it will be read or not, if it will go viral or not, or if, at some point in the distant future, it will eventually find an audience.
Those of us interested in making a living from writing and who are in this for the long haul have to understand that…
