Writing

The Best Thing I’ve Done For My Writing Is Complete A Writing Audit

Reflect, assess, and evaluate your writing and how you market it

Sarah Minnis
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
5 min readMar 5, 2024

--

Photo by Microsoft 365 on Unsplash

The First Quarter of the year is almost over.

It's a great time to reflect on our progress and adjust our writing routines and practices.

An easy way to do this is to complete a writing audit.

What is a writing audit?

For this article, I’ll say it’s a way of evaluating your work and processes to create better systems for the future. It’s a way of seeing where your knowledge and productivity gaps are and gaining a clear overview of your work.

Why should you do an audit?

It will help you become more focused, better organized, and better qualified to structure your time and writing workflows.

Once you see where the gaps are, you can see what action you need to take to plug those gaps!

Reflecting on previous work is a great motivational tool for me!

Below are some ideas about which areas to focus on if you want to complete a mini-writing audit.

I’ve focused on the making money side of writing (as opposed to the art of writing a novel, for…

--

--

Sarah Minnis
Writers’ Blokke

I write about side hustles, productivity and creativity whilst trying to live an eco-friendly and happy life. I love learning new crafts, words and skills!