Two of the biggest obstacles people face when writing is getting started and continuously producing work. It takes discipline to consistently write well and produce work on a regular basis. The key to both is very simple: start scheduling time in your day that is for writing.
Writing is a muscle that must be flexed all the time to maintain your skill at it, as well as, to improve it. The less you use it, the harder it is to get started when you need to get some writing done. When your are used to writing, ideas come to you faster. The speed at which you organize those ideas into formal thought to be written also increases. It does not matter whether you are writing fiction, a research paper, or a blog. Any form of writing, performed on a regular basis will aid your skills overall.
As your rate of production increases, your tendency towards laziness will decrease. The most alluring obstacle in writing is procrastination. Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? Especially, when you think the assignment will take no time at all, procrastination seeps in and delays any progress. What normally happens is this: You procrastinate on the assignment for some reason that you justify to yourself. No writing takes place till the last minute, where you expect to get it done in no time. Lack of writing has dulled your skills and your thoughts on the matter. The material is not as fresh, the ideas not coming as readily as they could have a day or more ago. What should have taken a few hours ends up taking an entire day or more. Sound familiar?
Avoid this and schedule writing time. If you have to get a lot of writing done, this is the only way to guarantee results on a consistent basis. As you become accustomed to sitting down and writing on a schedule, you will find the work never piles up and actually gets done faster. Your writing ability will grow and it will not seem as tedious a task.
Schedule your writing to stay ahead of your workload and improve your ability.
Writing is a muscle that must be flexed all the time to maintain your skill at it, as well as, to improve it. The less you use it, the harder it is to get started when you need to get some writing done. When your are used to writing, ideas come to you faster. The speed at which you organize those ideas into formal thought to be written also increases. It does not matter whether you are writing fiction, a research paper, or a blog. Any form of writing, performed on a regular basis will aid your skills overall.
As your rate of production increases, your tendency towards laziness will decrease. The most alluring obstacle in writing is procrastination. Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? Especially, when you think the assignment will take no time at all, procrastination seeps in and delays any progress. What normally happens is this: You procrastinate on the assignment for some reason that you justify to yourself. No writing takes place till the last minute, where you expect to get it done in no time. Lack of writing has dulled your skills and your thoughts on the matter. The material is not as fresh, the ideas not coming as readily as they could have a day or more ago. What should have taken a few hours ends up taking an entire day or more. Sound familiar?
Avoid this and schedule writing time. If you have to get a lot of writing done, this is the only way to guarantee results on a consistent basis. As you become accustomed to sitting down and writing on a schedule, you will find the work never piles up and actually gets done faster. Your writing ability will grow and it will not seem as tedious a task.
Schedule your writing to stay ahead of your workload and improve your ability.
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